On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 14:25, Chris Stark wrote: > 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. Setting aside the discussion of prelink being useful or not, if you want to disable it move the /etc/cron.daily/prelink file to a safe location. That should prevent it from being run each day.
