On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 20:25:10 +0200, Paul Wouters wrote: > - complexity > - complicated prelink blacklists > - complicated cron job exclusion with sysconfig You can always make your software development life more simple by giving up on some useful feature. That -O2 vs. -O0 build is a good comparison. > - FIPS foot-bullets I really do not care and do not run FIPS. Disable/uninstall prelink for FIPS. > - reduced alsr I do not know the details but the network facing daemons are already PIE while most of the binaries - those not facing untrusted data - have no use for PIE. > Other people added: > > - battery drain (i dont care if its cron or not, without prelink no > drain) > - sluggish systems when prelink is updating This is a bug in cron and/or people not running 24x7 machine should not use prelink at all. > - additional ram use when logged in for a long time Answered in: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-October/190237.html > So far you seem to say "those are not prelink bugs". True. > Just the FIPS issue for me That's for you but majority of Fedora users do not run in FIPS mode. > Furthermore, in the past I've indicated that we should have support for > systems booted in FIPS mode with fips=1, where though libraries and > programs that could not be prelinked should be unprelinked, as the > sysadmin specifically told us (via fips=1) that they value security over > speed gains) OK, great, so unprelink the programs. > prelink has served us in the past. It's time to let it go. People continually give up on software performance with better hardware. 64-bit systems nowadays run commonly slower than did the 8-bits in 1980s. Jan -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
