Chris Stark wrote: >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. Jakub Jelinek has written as much as anyone could wish to know about prelink. The PDF is available on an FC4 system as: /usr/share/doc/prelink-0.3.4/prelink.pdf One of the first things I do with a newly installed Red Hat system is turn off prelink, and turn on updatedb. IMHO prelink is a hugely over- engineered solution to a minor problem. Shaving 1.8s from the start up time of OOo doesn't seem worth it. Especially when it's sucking all the power out of my laptop battery and turning it into noise and hot air. Ron
