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Is Prelinking A Good Idea For Ubuntu 8.04?

Asked by taurus

 I followed a guide on how to enable Prelinking in ubuntu from this link:

http://shibuvarkala.blogspot.com/2008/08/prelink-will-speed-up-ubuntu.html

Do you think that it's a good idea to enable Prelinking even on ubuntu 8.04? I read somewhere that it's not necessary to enable it in ubunut 8.04, but I'm not sure. Any ideas?

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Jake Willoughby (onionjake) said : 		#1

It is probably not a good idea. The benefit is small and the risk is huge.

From http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=74197:

UPDATE 1/2/07: Prelink is no longer necessary in Feisty. Feisty uses a new linking mechanism called DT_GNU_HASH which dramatically speeds up the linking process without the need for continuously running this prelink program. Again, prelink is NOT useful starting from Feisty

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taurus (taurusxz) said : 		#2

Thanks jake. I uninstalled prelinking from my system.