On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 03:45:02PM -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
Prelink also hogs the CPU and causes a similar problem as you describe. Rather than disable all of these services, adding preference entries for controlling background processes to run at lower percntages would be a better approach.
They *do* run at lowered priority, but maybe also doing something to limit their CPU usage would also be good.