Issue in glibc in FC3T3 ?

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>>Elliot Lee <sopwith at redhat.com> 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.

Is there a potential for lots of race conditions if multiple resources
(i.e. all of cpu, memory and disk) are throttled?

>
> Ron
>
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