Thanks for the tip Warren!
I'm pretty sure that I was to quick to judge Fedora Core 1. I was
reading about the new prelink feature while I updated the software last
night. I noticed that now the system is much more responsive.
Prelinking is actually a great feature, if you can stand waiting just a
bit during the initial slowness. Does anyone know if there are other
distributions which ship with prelinking enabled in the default
install? Fedora actually seems pretty cutting edge.
- Tom
On Jan 7, 2004, at 2:35 AM, Warren Togami wrote:
Thomas Hackett wrote:
Hi Guys,
I've just finished installing Fedora Core 1 and to be honest, I'm
kind of disappointed. It seems really slow compared to Debian. I'm
using it on a PIII 450 MHz IBM ThinkPad 390x with 160 MB or ram. I
used to run Debian unstable and that worked fine.
I'm wondering if there's something I need to do to speed up Fedora.
I think I did a pretty standard install. Could I have put on too
much? Are there things I need to shutdown? Would updating to the
latest versions of packages help things?
- Tom Hackett
One thing that really helps desktop application speed is waiting for
the automatic prelink to happen. prelink goes through all of your
binaries and makes it so they launch and execute much faster. I think
it happens automatically once per day in cron, but you can force it as
root with:
/etc/cron.daily/prelink
