ELF Binary Stripper?

[Tony Nelson]

At 9:43 AM -0400 10/13/05, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
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>I wonder if nicing it would avoid the problem of making your machine
>unresponsive.  I don't see why it has to run at regular priority.

I see a renice +19 in /etc/cron.daily/prelink.  Of course, this won't
reduce the CPU usage below 100%, it just changes who gets it first.


>Also, the amount of work prelink does can be controlled in
>/etc/sysconfig/prelink.  Normally, it should be quick (only bins and libs
>that have changed), but every two weeks it runs normally.  If you aren't
>upgrading RPMs, it apparently doesn't do anything at all until after a
>week elapses.
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Anything that confuses prelink enough that it always runs a full prelink
would make it take a long time.  Perhaps it can't find /etc/prelink.cache
or it thinks the cache is bad or some such.  Perhaps -v would help diagnose
the problem, as would running it directly and observing.
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