ELF Binary Stripper?

[Scot L. Harris]

On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 14:25, Chris Stark wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 11:24 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> [ snip -- well-written tirade :) ]
> 
> > Since there is at least one person who posted a question on this
> > topic, I suppose there are others out there like me who are
> > annoyed and worried by this tool.
> 
> My workstation in the office is a 1GHz PIII with 1.25GB RAM running FC4.
> It's not a super fast system, but it works for web programming.
> 
> It seems like every day when I'm working, prelink inevitably launches
> when I'm doing something important and pegs my processor at 100% for
> often-times over two to three hours. Like Mike said, there's not really
> anything anywhere stating why I should just sit back and let my
> productivity be cut in half for a portion of every day while my system
> struggles to do ANYTHING other than prelink. 
> 
> If the benefits and rationale for using prelink are documented anywhere,
> I sincerely would be interested in viewing this. Otherwise, the claim of
> it significantly speeding anything up is made moot by the fact that the
> system is virtually unusable when prelink is running.
> 
> I don't want this to turn into my own little tirade or a flamewar, but I
> do think Mike is justified in his claim that the software is of
> questionable value, especially if there is little information available
> other than firsthand experience of it behaving undesirably.

Setting aside the discussion of prelink being useful or not, if you want
to disable it move the /etc/cron.daily/prelink file to a safe location. 
That should prevent it from being run each day.