Re: [gentoo-performance] Re: Digest of [EMAIL PROTECTED] issue 13 (100-109)

2007-05-11 Thread Roman Zimmermann
Am Freitag 11 Mai 2007 16:13 schrieb Cory Grunden: > Some things that I believe help with startup time are: > -Os and LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--hash-style=gnu -Wl,--as-needed" > In order to use the new --hash-styles, you need at least > > >=binutils-2.17.50.X, which is keyworded with -* I currently u

Re: [gentoo-performance] Speeding up program starts with squashfs

2007-05-09 Thread Roman Zimmermann
Am Mittwoch 09 Mai 2007 21:46 schrieb Derek Tracy: > Right but isn't it possible to utilize readahead to "pre-load" a ramdisk, > that way the io is happening before X is even ready to come up. That sounds more interesting now. I think I did mean something else with readahead at first. So if I rea

Re: [gentoo-performance] Speeding up program starts with squashfs

2007-05-09 Thread Roman Zimmermann
Am Mittwoch 09 Mai 2007 21:28 schrieb Derek Tracy: > You may want to look into using ReadAhead, some of the newer init systems > are using it to decrease boot time. Sorry, I think you missunderstood something: I already using readahead and it's not boot time I'm interested in. This is currently t

[gentoo-performance] Speeding up program starts with squashfs

2007-05-09 Thread Roman Zimmermann
deer, list! I currently try to minimize the application startup-time for my gentoo-laptop. Even with prelink it takes about one minute to start kde and all programs in autostart due to the heavy disk i/o load. In the last days I did some tests with taking a copy of my regular /usr (ext3) dir an