Anacron pre-link problem (FC4)

[Anne Wilson]

On 21/06/06, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > This morning, while anacron was running, I suddenly had 100% cpu
> > usage.  I immediately started top and caught a brief glimpse of
> > something with 'hal' in the name, then 'prelink' took over, claiming
> > 99% cpu.
> >
> > For various reasons no updates had been performed on this box until
> > yesterday, when a huge list updated, including the installation of
> > kernel 2.6.16-1.2115_FC4.
> >
> > Has anyone any idea why this may have happened?
> >
> > Anne
> >
>
> In the past, I noticed prelink running high on CPU usage when I
> installed large amounts of updates. When there is a lot for it to do,
> prelink boggs down the system. (Speed up execution of libraries, though
> you couldn't tell by prelink running)
>
> The system should get back to normal once prelink stabilizes its duties.
> It runs according to its need to prelink libraries in time and cpu usage.
>
> Jim
>
Hmm - I killed it.  I wonder if it will know that it was incomplete
and sort itself out next time?

Anne