On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 11:24 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: [ snip -- well-written tirade :) ] > Since there is at least one person who posted a question on this > topic, I suppose there are others out there like me who are > annoyed and worried by this tool. My workstation in the office is a 1GHz PIII with 1.25GB RAM running FC4. It's not a super fast system, but it works for web programming. It seems like every day when I'm working, prelink inevitably launches when I'm doing something important and pegs my processor at 100% for often-times over two to three hours. Like Mike said, there's not really anything anywhere stating why I should just sit back and let my productivity be cut in half for a portion of every day while my system struggles to do ANYTHING other than prelink. If the benefits and rationale for using prelink are documented anywhere, I sincerely would be interested in viewing this. Otherwise, the claim of it significantly speeding anything up is made moot by the fact that the system is virtually unusable when prelink is running. I don't want this to turn into my own little tirade or a flamewar, but I do think Mike is justified in his claim that the software is of questionable value, especially if there is little information available other than firsthand experience of it behaving undesirably. Aloha, -- Chris Stark Musician, Linux User, & Grad Student http://chrisstark.com/
