[kde-solaris] Improve Startup-Speed for KDE!?

[Michael Lindig]

Narendra Kumar S.S schrieb:
> Do you have set of commands to try this in Solaris?

Sorry?! The commands below are for Solaris-bash (only for Solaris because of 
clre command ;-) )!

Which commands did you mean?

Michael
> 
> -Narendra
> 
> On 7/4/07, Michael Lindig <michael.lindig at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to improve the startup speed of KDE. In Linux you can use
>> prelinked
>> files and I know on Solaris you can improve some search path and object
>> relocations with 'crle'.
>>
>> The simplest solution is a new LD_CONFIG-File creation which holds the
>> shared
>> object locations in cache. Example:
>>
>>   NewLdConfigFile=...
>>   rm -f ${NewLdConfigFile}
>>   unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>>   unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH_64
>>   # create cache config
>>   crle -64 -u -i /usr/local/sparcv9/lib \
>>               -i /usr/local/sparcv9/kde-3.5.7/lib \
>>               -i /usr/local/sparcv9/X11R7.2/lib \
>>            -c ${NewLdConfigFile}
>>   # adjust buggy libz reference
>>   crle -64 -u -a /usr/local/sparcv9/lib/libz.so \
>>               -o /usr/lib/64/libz.so \
>>            -c ${NewLdConfigFile}
>>
>>   # after this you can use the new config by definition
>>   # of environment variable LD_CONFIG_64
>>   # for example in your .bashrc : export LD_CONFIG_64=${NewLdConfigFile}
>>
>> This reduces the referenced shared object searches and reduces also the
>> file accesses. BUT the speed improvement is not as much as expected :( !
>>
>> A other solution is the usage of "-I" or "-G" options of 'crle' to create
>> alternative optimized versions of libs or executables. But if I use this
>> for
>> libs like libqt-mt or libDCOP then KDE does not run as before (missing
>> jpeg
>> support, some applications don't start ...).
>>
>> Here my Questions:
>>
>>   Is there any KDE guru which can say: 'Here you shall tune to get a
>> faster KDE
>>   speedup! Optimize following files ... !' ?
>>
>>   Is 'crle' the right tool? Exists any other?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Michael