[luau] Fedora Core 1 seems slow

[Thomas Hackett]

Thanks for the tip Warren!

I'm pretty sure that I was to quick to judge Fedora Core 1.  I was 
reading about the new prelink feature while I updated the software last 
night.  I noticed that now the system is much more responsive.  
Prelinking is actually a great feature, if you can stand waiting just a 
bit during the initial slowness.  Does anyone know if there are other 
distributions which ship with prelinking enabled in the default 
install?  Fedora actually seems pretty cutting edge.

- Tom

On Jan 7, 2004, at 2:35 AM, Warren Togami wrote:

> Thomas Hackett wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
>> I've just finished installing Fedora Core 1 and to be honest, I'm 
>> kind of disappointed.  It seems really slow compared to Debian.  I'm 
>> using it on a PIII 450 MHz IBM ThinkPad 390x with 160 MB or ram.  I 
>> used to run Debian unstable and that worked fine.
>> I'm wondering if there's something I need to do to speed up Fedora.  
>> I think I did a pretty standard install.  Could I have put on too 
>> much?  Are there things I need to shutdown?  Would updating to the 
>> latest versions of packages help things?
>> - Tom Hackett
>
> One thing that really helps desktop application speed is waiting for 
> the automatic prelink to happen.  prelink goes through all of your 
> binaries and makes it so they launch and execute much faster.  I think 
> it happens automatically once per day in cron, but you can force it as 
> root with:
>
> /etc/cron.daily/prelink
>