Re: [Cooker] Misleading Gentoo vs. Mandrake 9.1 performance

2003-10-09 Thread danny
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, texstar wrote: I thought you could blacklist libraries and binaries based on using the -b prefix in your /etc/prelink.conf file: yes probably, but as all kde/qt apps load libGL it would be nice to have that one prelinked as well. d.

Re: [Cooker] Misleading Gentoo vs. Mandrake 9.1 performance

2003-10-09 Thread Jaco Greeff
Gwenole Beauchesne wrote: On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Buchan Milne wrote: I have been sent a package by someone that uses (AFAICT) two approaches, running at install time, and running via cron. I will upload to contrib (unless there is vehement opposition ...) this evening (I can't get to klama from the

[Cooker] Misleading Gentoo vs. Mandrake 9.1 performance

2003-10-08 Thread Gwenole Beauchesne
Hi, I have read your article at: http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/performance.xml There are several inconsistencies: 1) To compare load-time performance, he used Mandrake 9.1. Mandrake 9.1 ships with its binaries pre-linked, which allows for faster load-times. In contrast, Gentoo Linux ships

Re: [Cooker] Misleading Gentoo vs. Mandrake 9.1 performance

2003-10-08 Thread danny
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Gwenole Beauchesne wrote: This is wrong. There is no prelink in any Mandrake Linux distribution yet. yes, but now we are on the topic, I wanted to ask for a long time whether you think it is time to start doing it? IIRC from the stuff I read about it some time ago, it

Re: [Cooker] Misleading Gentoo vs. Mandrake 9.1 performance

2003-10-08 Thread Diego Iastrubni
, 8 2003, 11:00,[EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Gwenole Beauchesne wrote: This is wrong. There is no prelink in any Mandrake Linux distribution yet. yes, but now we are on the topic, I wanted to ask for a long time whether you think it is time to start doing it? IIRC from the

Re: [Cooker] Misleading Gentoo vs. Mandrake 9.1 performance

2003-10-08 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Gwenole Beauchesne wrote: This is wrong. There is no prelink in any Mandrake Linux distribution yet. yes, but now we are on the topic, I wanted to ask for a long time whether you think it is time to

Re: [Cooker] Misleading Gentoo vs. Mandrake 9.1 performance

2003-10-08 Thread Gwenole Beauchesne
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Buchan Milne wrote: I have been sent a package by someone that uses (AFAICT) two approaches, running at install time, and running via cron. I will upload to contrib (unless there is vehement opposition ...) this evening (I can't get to klama from the university at

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2003-10-08 Thread Gwenole Beauchesne
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Diego Iastrubni wrote: you think it is time to start doing it? IIRC from the stuff I read about it some time ago, it would be necessarily to run prelink on each install of new libraries. In that case, a lot of rpms would need to be adepted. Unless ofcourse, prelink is

Re: [Cooker] Misleading Gentoo vs. Mandrake 9.1 performance

2003-10-08 Thread Gwenole Beauchesne
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Gwenole Beauchesne wrote: I am interested in your cron jobs though. In other words, please don't upload the package to contribs/.

Re: [Cooker] Misleading Gentoo vs. Mandrake 9.1 performance

2003-10-08 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gwenole Beauchesne wrote: On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Gwenole Beauchesne wrote: I am interested in your cron jobs though. In other words, please don't upload the package to contribs/. OK, I have mailed you all the files though ... Any chance we will see

Re: [Cooker] Misleading Gentoo vs. Mandrake 9.1 performance

2003-10-08 Thread danny
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Gwenole Beauchesne wrote: This would be interesting to have a look at it but the only reason why I haven't uploaded any prelink package yet is because (i) this is indeed something to be run better through cron (daily for new installs, weekly to reprelink), (ii)

Re: [Cooker] Misleading Gentoo vs. Mandrake 9.1 performance

2003-10-08 Thread danny
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Gwenole Beauchesne wrote: On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Gwenole Beauchesne wrote: I am interested in your cron jobs though. In other words, please don't upload the package to contribs/. in that case, i'd like to see it as well (not that i currently have much time to play with

Re: [Cooker] Misleading Gentoo vs. Mandrake 9.1 performance

2003-10-08 Thread texstar
On Wednesday 08 October 2003 01:59 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Gwenole Beauchesne wrote: This would be interesting to have a look at it but the only reason why I haven't uploaded any prelink package yet is because (i) this is indeed something to be run better through