comments on KDE performance tips

[stephane Petithomme]

On Friday 17 January 2003 16:48, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Roger Larsson <roger.larsson@norran.net> wrote:
> > Not for me. It slows it down.
> > Maybe I have too little memory, or too much debug info in my files.
> > (full debug compiled)
>
> It could certainly be that.
>
> And it also matters (a lot) if you've copied the executables after link=
ing
> them.  If you're executing your programs from the place where the linke=
r
> left them, the read bandwidth is very poor.
>
> Example: here is the file offset to disk block mapping of sylpheed, whi=
ch I
> compiled yesterday.  As you can imagine, copying this file to
> /usr/local/bin will result in something which loads a lot faster.
>
> mnm:/usr/src/sylpheed/src> ls -l sylpheed
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 akpm     akpm      2786377 Jan 14 23:40 sylpheed
> mnm:/usr/src/sylpheed/src> 0 bmap sylpheed

Just one question : How do you get that command. I am using SuSE 8.0 and =
can=20
not find it in the CDs.

Regards

Stephane