tir, 02.11.2004 kl. 10.50 skrev Ron Yorston: > >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. > agreed. But as far as i know, the CPU is seldom the limiting factor when running a multi-tasking OS such as Linux. And i am using a 650 Mhz. What i mean, is that i hardly notice when the CPU is chrunching away at full speed, but when something hits disk (updatedb and sometimes memory (OpenOffice dictionary load) hard - it is noticed.