prelink is taking up the CPU

[Antonio Olivares]

Dear list,

   Prelink is taking up most of the CPU.  taking it
all the way up to 99%.

[olivares at localhost ~]$ top

top - 09:22:02 up  2:11,  1 user,  load average: 1.93,
2.47, 1.44
Tasks: 146 total,   2 running, 143 sleeping,   1
stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  1.7%us,  3.0%sy, 95.0%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa, 
0.0%hi,  0.3%si,  0.0%st
Mem:    768716k total,   759768k used,     8948k free,
   25564k buffers
Swap:  3114416k total,       52k used,  3114364k free,
  407904k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM   
TIME+  COMMAND            
 4804 root      39  19 20424  17m  580 R 94.9  2.3  
8:01.44 prelink            
 6720 root      15   0  170m  18m 7032 S  1.7  2.5  
0:27.69 Xorg               
 6896 olivares  15   0 58356  22m  10m S  1.7  3.0  
0:02.55 beagled            
 7479 olivares  18   0  2200 1052  808 R  1.0  0.1  
0:00.27 top                
 6892 olivares  15   0 19796 8196 6120 S  0.3  1.1  
0:01.01 gkrellm            
 6982 olivares  15   0 60540  12m 8740 S  0.3  1.6  
0:00.70 gnome-terminal     
    2 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  
0:00.00 migration/0        
    3 root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  
0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0        
    4 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  
0:00.00 watchdog/0         
    5 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  
0:00.03 events/0           
    6 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  
0:00.02 khelper            
    7 root      11  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  
0:00.00 kthread            
   45 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  
0:00.02 kblockd/0          
   46 root      20  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  
0:00.00 kacpid             
  143 root      20  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  
0:00.00 cqueue/0           
  144 root      20  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  
0:00.00 ksuspend_usbd      
  147 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  
0:00.00 khubd              

[2]+  Stopped                 top
[olivares at localhost ~]$ 

What should I do other than reboot?

Regards,

Antonio

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