Hello Andreas Replying to your email gets rid of the entire message you wrote ..... I use groupwise
Prelinking is supported by SUSE Linux and I would give it a try.
I have and it does get startup times faster and I also run the following, which make the system in general more responsive, but as I said even compiling xorg completely for i686, which I am also doing for my own system make it really responsive. Compiling QT and KDE on top of that would certainly give it another boost.
What are the Con Kolivas patches? Can you post a URL?
http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/
One think is that features slowdown the system. We need to have an universal system that does everything - and therefore is overdesigned for a lot of cases.
I understand, however as far as I can recall Gentoo also has quite a lot of dependencies in their trees, but things are faster.
If anybody comes up with some great ideas on how to improve performance, let's test those and integrate them where possible,
1.) Prelink system out of the box if it is a desktop and add cron job (it is not enough to allow that to be done since a normal user will never do it by himself. 2.) Recompile with more aggressive opimisations at least: xorg, AT, kde, gnome. 3.) Add Con Kolivas patches to a special desktop kernel. Do all 3 on your own system, Andreas and you will see, that is is very much worth it. I currently do it for my nld laptop (apart from kde and gnome) and have a system that is much more responsive. With autobuild it should be doable to just do a testrun, prelink it and roll your own Kolivas kernel and you will be suprised!