[Centos] top "command prelink" (coming from Anacron? - ld-linux.so.2) high CPU usage?!?

[mailing-lists at hughesjr.com (Johnny Hughes)]

On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 18:33 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote:
> > Can anyone tell me what this was (from the man pages I gather 'anachron' 
> > to be a cron/at like scheduler)?
> 
> prelink is a new technology from Redhat that speeds up program loading.
> 
> As the name implies, it prelinks libraries used by programs and the cron 
> job you see are the regular checks to update current system software 
> library dependencies.
> _______________________________________________

Prelink is also available for other linux/unix variants ... and it
doesn't hog resources after it is done :)

On initial install, it prelinks the libraries ... which takes a
significant amount of time.  After it finishes, it runs at a
predetermined interval.

All major linux distros have prelink available.

http://www.pk.edu.pl/cgi-bin/man-cgi?prelink
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