performance tuning -- application start-up time

[Chadley Wilson]

Chad here 
I have a 633 cel with 128mb ram, @ first I thought my PC was just a bit
slow but now even open office is a rocket @ about 12 secs.
Oviously I would like OPen to be much faster but hey you cant win them
all,
Shot pal!

On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 01:36, Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote:
> Fred Nastos wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >I just installed Fedora Core 1 on a system with an
> >Athlon XP 2500+ on an ASUS A7V600 motherboard, with
> >512 MB PC3200 400MHz RAM, and Maxtor 120G
> >A133/7200RPM hard disk.
> >
> >  
> >
> Fred,
> maybe it is because of prelink (or lack of it).. If your machine has 
> been just installed , maybe prelink didnt run yet... It helps to improve 
> startup times of apps by prelinking the necessary libs to the 
> application... You can run the prelink cron job now to see if it helps 
> improve performance.. It is under  /etc/cron.daily/prelink . It will 
> take some time to finish , as it tries to prelink a lot of applications...
> 
> Pedro Macedo
>