Issue in glibc in FC3T3 ?

Kim Lux (Mr.) lux at diesel-research.com
Thu Oct 28 15:57:15 UTC 2004


Agreed.  Prelink was running for 10 minutes at high cpu usage.  I think
there is an issue here.  See the email I just sent.  

On Thu, 2004-28-10 at 11:53 -0400, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 09:46:28AM -0600, Kim Lux (Mr.) wrote:
> > I never even thought it would be a cron job !  
> > 
> > This doesn't explain the top process running as root though.
> > 
> > Furthermore, prelink ran for about 10 minutes at 80+%.  It is running on
> > an otherwise unloaded 3.2GHz P4 with 1GB RAM.   I think there was
> > something wrong with it. 
> 
> If you have upgraded glibc, then nothing is wrong about prelink running
> for 10 or even 30 minutes depending on how many programs you have instaled
> and how fast the CPU is.
> When glibc is upgraded, prelink needs to re-prelink all binaries on your
> system and all libraries they are using, so in the order of several
> thousands of binaries and libraries.
> On the other side, when nothing got upgraded within last day, prelink
> when not running in its fortnight non-quick mode should take just a few
> seconds, if caches are really cold worst case a minute or two.
> 
> 	Jakub
> 
-- 
Kim Lux (Mr.) <lux at diesel-research.com>




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