how to make KDE faster?

[Zabil Maliackal]

On Wednesday 25 February 2004 05:34 pm, corey_s at cox.net wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 01:18:53AM +0530, Zabil Maliackal wrote:
> > On Wednesday 25 February 2004 12:34 am, corey_s at cox.net wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > >   Anyone tried prelinking yet?
> >
> > Fedora Core 1 already comes configured with prelink.
> > I am not sure though if prelink has to be re-run when Kde is upgraded.
>
>   Yup - anytime you upgrade/re-install, you'll need to run prelink again.
>
>   To be safe, run it like so:  'prelink -vaf'
>
> OPTIONS
>        -v --verbose
>               Verbose mode.  Print the  virtual  address  slot  assignment 
> to libraries  and  print  what binary or library is currently being
> prelinked.
>
>       -a --all
>               Prelink all binaries and dependant libraries found in 
> directory hierarchies specified in /etc/prelink.conf.  Normally only bina-
> ries specified from command line and their  dependant  libraries are
> prelinked.
>
>       -f --force
>               Force re-prelinking even for already prelinked objects for
> which no dependencies changed. This option causes new virtual  address
> space  slots  to  be  assigned to all libraries.  Normally, only binaries
> or libraries which are either  not  prelinked  yet,  or some of their
> dependencies changed, are prelinked.
>
> > when i try prelink in the kde directory it tell's me that preink
> > information is already there in the cache.
>
>   Do you have an /etc/prelink.conf?
>
>   Here's an example:
>
> -l /bin
> -l /sbin
> -l /usr/bin
> -l /usr/sbin
> -l /lib
> -l /usr/lib
> -h /opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.03/jre/lib
> -h /usr/X11R6/lib
> -h /usr/games/lib
> -h /usr/kde/3.2/lib
> -h /usr/lib/fltk-1.1
> -h /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.2
> -h /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.3
> -h /usr/lib/opengl/ati/lib
> -h /usr/local/lib
> -h /usr/qt/3/lib
> -h /usr/local/bin
> -h /opt/bin
> -h /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.3
> -h /opt/ati/bin
> -h /usr/X11R6/bin
> -h /opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.03/bin
> -h /opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.03/jre/bin
> -h /opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.03/jre/javaws
> -h /usr/qt/3/bin
> -h /usr/kde/3.2/bin
> -h /usr/games/bin
>
>

Tried the above, took an awful lot of time in doing what it did.
Did not notice big improvements in the application start up though.

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