John Wendel wrote: >I've got an FC3 "everything install, latest updates" system that has >never had prelink run on it, unless it was run by the installer, since >I don't run cron. The hardware is a 933 Mhz PIII, 512MB, Intel MB, >80GB Maxtor IDE disk. > >As root, I ran "time prelink -av > foo". > >Wallclock was 2 minutes 16 seconds, CPU was 14 seconds. The system was >responsive on another console while prelink was running. > >The output file contained one line, >"Laying out 758 libraries in virtual address space 41000000-50000000". > >There was some console output complaining about Firefox and Mozilla >and unable to locate dependent somethings. That doesn't sound to me as if a full prelink was performed. I've just run 'prelink -av' on a recently installed RHEL4 system. There were hundreds of lines of 'Prelinking <pathname>' output. With a Pentium III running at 850MHz this took 45 minutes 38 seconds of real time and 39 minutes 49 seconds of CPU. Ron
