>>Elliot Lee <sopwith@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Kim Lux (Mr.) wrote: >> >>> I did a freshen of both Qt and Glibc and now I've got prelink and ld >>> running as root !!!!???? Prelink is stealing all my cpu cycles. What >>> is >>> up with that ? I finally had to kill it.. >> >>prelink speeds up app startup - it does the work once to save startup >>times repeatedly. > > I'm not convinced, for my pattern of usage at least, that the game is > worth the candle. On my laptop I start my desktop, a few xterms and > maybe Mozilla, then leave them running. Any time that might be saved > on startup is outweighed by the inconvenience of having the system become > unresponsive when anacron kicks in to perform the prelinking. Which > always seems to happen at the most awkward moment. (Yes, I know I can > turn it off. And I have.) > > Prelink seems to do an enormous amount of work when it runs. Have the > developers checked that all of this effort is really necessary? > > What might help would be the ability to limit the resources (CPU, disk > I/O, whatever) that are used by background processes. Nice is nice, but > not powerful enough. Something like cpucap > > http://www.rshk.co.uk/projects/cpucap/ > > would seem to be a better option. Is there a potential for lots of race conditions if multiple resources (i.e. all of cpu, memory and disk) are throttled? > > Ron > > -- > fedora-test-list mailing list > fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list >