Performance shock (oops follow-up)

[Ed Sutherland]

I completely agree about the eventual slowdown of Windows. The 
responsiveness of Windows after a fresh install has little in common 
with the sluggish behavior after a few weeks of everyday thrashing. 
(Although, to be fair, I wonder how much of this loss of speed can be 
regained by regular defrag and registery cleanup?)

Your point about pre-linking applications for increased speed was 
intriguing. What is pre-linking?

Ed

paul cooke wrote:

>>Surely the biggest thing you're missing is that once Windows has been on
>>a drive for a few weeks and you've installed a few things that speed
>>starts to slow down dramatically.
>>Linux has a consistent speed/behaviour whereas Windows just gets more
>>and more fat and bloated and slow as the registry fills up with crap and
>>the browser cache begins to slow surfing down.
>>
>>For OpenOffice go to Tools > Options and Memory and set the amount of
>>Memory allocated to OO to a higher value - I set mine to 128MB in total
>>with 6MB per object and OO flies along.
>>
> 
> 
> prelinking your executables also gives a dramatic speedup in their loading as 
> the OS no longer has to work out how to load in the application and all it's 
> dependant libraries as the donkey work has already been done.
> 
> this is what I do now after every update:
> 
> sudo prelink -amvR
> 
> It takes a long time for the first run and if the update has been a deep one 
> affecting many other programs, but most of the time, it only takes a couple 
> of minutes.
> 
> it is also possible to do the same for OOo, there is a separate command 
> ('oooprelink' of all things) to run as normal prelinking doesn't work for it.