On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, William Lovaton wrote: > Hi there, > > I installed FC3 a few days ago and I'm very happy to see all the > improvements. > > About after an hour of my first boot I noticed a proccess in background > taking up the CPU for a long time. It was 'prelink' (via crond??). > Checking the man page says that it prelinks all the binary libraries and > programs for faster startup times and lower memory consumption. It > worked really nice. > > It also says that it should be executed again if a program or library > has been updated (yum, apt?) or else it will use the traditional linking > again slowing down startup speed. > > Does that mean that after a big update I should run it again?? What can > I do to relaunch that job? (I dont remember the parameters). Is that in > cron or something?? The prelink cron job runs once everyday - so you don't have to worry about running it manually. If you want to run this manually - run the script '/etc/cron.daily/prelink' Satish
