HOWTO: Enable prelink

[Fintan]

Thanks for the howto.
I'm newbe with ubuntu. So this may seem a stupid question:
After install prlink and setting everything in the /etc/defaults/prelink
and running: sudo /etc/cron.daily/prelink
the terminal daes not schow me any status as in "prelink successfull" or anything like that.
And the apps run just as slow as before.
Am i doing something wrong?

Sys:
PII 450 Mhz
296 Ram
392 Swap
Ubuntu 5.04 Pre

Any help would be appreciated.
Fintan

[CowPie]

Thanks for the howto.
I'm newbe with ubuntu. So this may seem a stupid question:
After install prlink and setting everything in the /etc/defaults/prelink
and running: sudo /etc/cron.daily/prelink
the terminal daes not schow me any status as in "prelink successfull" or anything like that.
And the apps run just as slow as before.
Am i doing something wrong?

Sys:
PII 450 Mhz
296 Ram
392 Swap
Ubuntu 5.04 Pre

Any help would be appreciated.
Fintan

the terminal daes not schow me any status as in "prelink successfull" or anything like that.

Same thing happened here...
with hoary

[kagou]

I'v tested

Before:
boot->gdm 112s
gdm->gnome: 22s
openoffice writer:15s
firefox:5s

After:
boot->gdm 109s
gdm->gnome: 22s
openoffice writer:12s
firefox:5s

AMD64 3400+ hoary (32bits)

[underworld]

And the apps run just as slow as before.

Prelink does only speed up the load process of an application.

[Buffalo Soldier]

Are there any drawbacks in enabling prelink? If yes, what are they?

[Leif]

I realize that this is just my system, and it works fine for everyone else, but prelinking crashes my system (then again, it seems a bit temperamental today, which is weird). The first time I tried it it crashed, but I decided not to be deterred. So I went again. It crashed again, taking dbus-launch with it. Nothing a reinstall of the relevant app didn't fix, but for some reason prelinking and my system don't like eachother, so I guess I'll just have to live with the slower startups.

[jdong]

Are there any drawbacks in enabling prelink? If yes, what are they?

After major system updates, like library updates, you must remember to start a prelink. Else, you might get quirky/unstable behavior.

[kuleali]

Thank you, it worked without problem

[23meg]

does this howto apply exactly to Hoary?

when i type sudo /etc/cron.daily/prelink at the terminal the hd spins wildly for about 10 minutes (first prelink; subsequent ones were shorter) and then the bash prompt reappears, but the drive keeps working for a few more minutes. is this normal?

[mrbass]

I realize that this is just my system, and it works fine for everyone else, but prelinking crashes my system

I've had various problems doing a universal prelink in other distros. I wouldn't recommend it prelinking your whole system. Even though Yoper does it if you examine it it has special ld_library paths or whatever, etc. I'd say about 75% of apps in mac os x are 'prebinded'.

I do, however, recommend prelinking Openoffice as it'll cut down the load times in half. Instead of 15 seconds to load OpenWriter, for instance, it'll only take 7 seconds. Sure you can have that openoffice thing load on start but that'll waste memory resources if you don't use it all the time.

sudo apt-get install prelink
sudo /usr/sbin/oooprelink -f