Prelink maxing out CPU

Jakub Jelinek jakub at redhat.com
Wed Oct 8 07:12:20 UTC 2003


On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 07:25:10PM -0400, Marcus White wrote:
> It was constant for about 15 minutes when I noticed it. Now if it kick
> off at 4:00am means it ran for about an hour... What would be considered
> a sane amount of time? I did run the updates from the 6th...

Full prelinking (e.g. if you have upgraded glibc) takes typically like 30
minutes on contemporary machines. On 400MHz/128MB box certainly longer.
When nothing changed on the box, quick prelink check should take something
around a minute or so.

	Jakub





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