Issue in glibc in FC3T3 ?

Per Bjornsson perbj at stanford.edu
Tue Nov 2 17:12:08 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 04:38, Klaasjan Brand wrote:
> > >prelink speeds up app startup - it does the work once to save startup
> > >times repeatedly.
> 
> Then isn't it more convenient to run it when installing packages using
> rpm (when I expect some thrashing) and let the user decide if and when
> to prelink manually installed packages?

Not really, since when you install a new library everything that links
to it needs to be prelinked again. Say there's a glibc update; do you
really want the computer to thrash for between 10 minutes and half an
hour, depending on how fast your hardware is?

/Per





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