On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 04:54:16PM +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote: > On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 16:21:01 +0200, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > To justify removing it, we just need to collect data to show that those > > performance benefits no longer exist, with current hardware and software > > combination in Fedora. That is what this email thread is seeking to confirm. > > There is missing some statistics behind it such as deviation computation. > And 4 tests/numbers seem to be too few to compute any real statistics. > > Some numbers in the initial mail even show as if prelink is slowing down the > startup. Technically I do not understand how it can happen and IMHO rather > the numbers are bogus. If there is a proven performance degradation it would > be good to know the reason. I wouldn't read that as saying that prelink is slowing down startup, rather that the benefit of prelink is so small as to be indistinguishable from the background noise. Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct