Re: Re: Digest of [email protected] issue 13 (100-109)
"Francisco Rivas" <[email protected]> Fri, 11 May 2007 10:20:07 -0400
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.gentoo.performance |
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Hi all, Reading your post i am feel interested in increase my laptop performance but I don't know by where start, can someone tell me? Thank you so much in advance and regards On 5/11/07, Cory Grunden <[email protected]> wrote: > > > deer, list! > > > > I currently try to minimize the application startup-time for my > > gentoo-laptop. > > Even with prelink it takes about one minute to start kde and all > programs in > > autostart due to the heavy disk i/o load. > > In the last days I did some tests with taking a copy of my regular /usr > > (ext3) > > dir and storing it in a squashfs file. I then mount it as loopback > device > > on /usr. (Leaving the original copy still intact but hidden.) > > > > Those are the effects I try to achieve: > > 1. The filesystem has no fragmentation at all. Files in my regular /usr > dir > > are somewhat fragmented, but not too badly. > > 2. It's compressed: less disk i/o and more cpu load. > > > > So far the results have been promising. With the new squashfs I'm down > to > > around 50 secs (-16%). But at the moment my benchmark methods are quite > > primitve. I simply have a stopwatch nearby and meassure the time from > login > > to when the disk is idle again. I'm looking forward to some input on > this. > > > > greets > > Roman > > > Some things that I believe help with startup time are: > -Os and LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--hash-style=gnu -Wl,--as-needed" > In order to use the new --hash-styles, you need at least > >=binutils-2.17.50.X, which is keyworded with -* > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- Francisco Rivas Linux User (New) : #448324 Linux Machine (New) : 355187