At 9:43 AM -0400 10/13/05, Matthew Saltzman wrote: ... >I wonder if nicing it would avoid the problem of making your machine >unresponsive. I don't see why it has to run at regular priority. I see a renice +19 in /etc/cron.daily/prelink. Of course, this won't reduce the CPU usage below 100%, it just changes who gets it first. >Also, the amount of work prelink does can be controlled in >/etc/sysconfig/prelink. Normally, it should be quick (only bins and libs >that have changed), but every two weeks it runs normally. If you aren't >upgrading RPMs, it apparently doesn't do anything at all until after a >week elapses. ... Anything that confuses prelink enough that it always runs a full prelink would make it take a long time. Perhaps it can't find /etc/prelink.cache or it thinks the cache is bad or some such. Perhaps -v would help diagnose the problem, as would running it directly and observing. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
