prelink should not mess with running executables

Tomas Mraz tmraz at redhat.com
Mon Jul 16 07:30:47 UTC 2012


On Sun, 2012-07-15 at 19:58 +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote: 
> On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 19:37:26 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
> > you must start openoffice damned often that the benfit beats out
> > the overhead of the /etc/cron.daily/prelink
> 
> When you prelink it nightly on AC and run it at least once on battery, the
> saving has been done.
> 
> 
> > to beat the battery drain of /etc/cron.daily/prelink
> 
> That prelink is being run on battery I repeat is a bug of cron.

Definitely not a bug. If it is a bug of anything then of the prelink
script that it does not check the battery status.

Cron cannot know whether the script is lightweight and important enough
to be run also on battery power or not.

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Tomas Mraz
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