I decided to play with prelink and see if/how much it helps. >From the list here, I saw that people were just running it on RH9 with the command: prelink -aRv so I tried it and got the following: [root@xxxxxxx lib]# prelink -aRv prelink: /usr/lib/libaio.so.1: Library without dependencies prelink: /usr/bin/vmnet-natd: Could not parse `Incorrectly built binary which accesses errno, h_errno or _res directly. Needs to be fixed.' prelink: /usr/bin/vmware-wizard: Could not parse `Incorrectly built binary which accesses errno, h_errno or _res directly. Needs to be fixed.' prelink: /usr/lib/openoffice/program/pkgchk.bin: Could not parse `/usr/lib/openoffice/program/pkgchk.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libsal.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory' prelink: /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libspa641li.so: Dependency tracing failed Laying out 671 libraries in virtual address space 41000000-50000000 prelink: Could not find virtual address slot for /usr/lib/kfmclient.so Which didn't look good so to see if anything happened: [root@xxxxxxx lib]# prelink -p 0 objects found in prelink cache `/etc/prelink.cache' Any Idea what is going on here? The only non stock RH9 software on here is VMWare and a few freshrpms for mp3 etc...