On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Dale <[email protected]> wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 02:04:38 -0600, Dale wrote: >> >> >> >>> I used it on a older and pretty slow rig once and it did help. I think >>> it was 800Mhz with 512Mbs of ram. It also had some much slower IDE >>> drives too. It wasn't a huge difference but you could tell the >>> difference. >>> >>> >> Some of the googling I did in the wake of the glibc-2.13 debacle >> indicated that prelinking makes far less difference wih newer kernels >> anyway. Even the old slow box wouldn't get much benefit from it. >> >> I disabled it because of glibc and won't be re-enabling it, but I might >> give it a try on this netbook to see if it makes a discernable difference >> with a slow CPU and slow drive, or I'll buy it a SSD. >> >> >> > > Sounds like it isn't worth the trouble anymore. I think I'll leave it > alone. The new ram may make some things faster tho. > > Thanks. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > I have just upgraded my laptop to 8GB (90$ ebay ddr3). I now use tmpfs on /var/tmp and /tmp/ and run catalyst with all sorts of experiments. Take care I needed to provide more inodes to /var/tmp/ . with nr_inodes=500K,size=80% the default was 204K.
Regards, Kfir
