Is pre-linking worth it? [LWN.net]

Is pre-linking worth it?

Posted Jul 16, 2009 0:47 UTC (Thu) by etrusco (guest, #4227)
In reply to: Is pre-linking worth it? by mjthayer
Parent article: Is pre-linking worth it?

It probably does.
While you're at it, create a new profile and time its startup too; but don't ask me why the difference...

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Is pre-linking worth it?

Posted Jul 16, 2009 4:17 UTC (Thu) by zlynx (guest, #2285) [Link] (1 responses)

You can get some speed back by doing a "vacuum" on your Firefox profile's sqlite tables.

Is pre-linking worth it?

Posted Jul 23, 2009 21:37 UTC (Thu) by ariveira (guest, #57833) [Link]

Yep;

for f in ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/*.sqlite; do sqlite3 $f 'VACUUM;'; done

from time to time

Is pre-linking worth it?

Posted Jul 16, 2009 5:00 UTC (Thu) by bvdm (guest, #42755) [Link]

Apparently NSS runs through your cache to seed its random number generator. May be something like that.. o_O