On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 11:06:27AM -0500, alex at milivojevic.org wrote: > What order of performance degradation to expect? If it is minor, nobody is > going to cry about it. My old RH 7.3 systems don't have prelinking, and I > don't see them being any slower than FC2 and newer systems that have > prelinking... As I understand it, the biggest impact will be on startup times for big C++ applications -- KDE and Mozilla, maybe OpenOffice.org. I haven't tested extensively, but here we turn off prelinking for exactly this reason. -- Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 76 degrees Fahrenheit.