[K12OSN] prelink

[Gavin Chester]

On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 07:16 -0800, ddaniels at magic.fr wrote:
> Gavin
> I'm using IceWm too. We had some issues with IceWm chewing up huge 
> resources... I don't know if this link will help or not:
> http://dennisgdaniels.com/tiki-index.php?page=K12LTSP+and+IceWM
> 
> It goes over some other posts on this list with some tips from jammcq as 
> well
> 
> hth
> Dennis
> 

Thanks for the pointer, Dennis.  I remember the threads on this list
about icewm resource problems, but never saw previous mention of the
'prelink' app that was causing me trouble.  I'll institute the change
suggested in the link(s) to see if it helps - though the daily cron of
'prelink' has run it's course now and I guess I'll have to wait until
tomorrow to see if it comes back after my change.  Yes, yes, I should
look at my list of cron jobs, I suppose, and comment that one out to
make sure it's gone for good :-)  

I'll also re-read all the icewm threads in the archive (I've them
archived locally, anyway) ...  and I need to read up on editing icewm
config files since I wasn't bothered about doing that until now ;-)  

Gavin.


> Gavin Chester wrote:
> 
> >I've generally been using KDE, but have been trying to get more
> >comfortable with icewm because I'm on an 'old' PII 450MHz as my ltsp
> >server 8-).  When I switch to running icewm I see that prelink (at the
> >moment, at least) is operating and being a real cpu hog taking up >70%
> >of system/cpu resources.  I don't see this at all with KDE.  I did a
> >quick read of 'man prelink' but that doesn't give any light (to me) on
> >why it's running.  Here is a selection of ps -aux and below that a
> >section of top to show what I mean:
> >
> >####### ps aux extract with wrapped lines ############ 
> ># root      5956  0.0  0.0  5244 1020 ?        SN   21:16
> >0:00 /bin/sh /etc/cron.daily/prelink
> ># root      5957  0.0  0.0  5144  688 ?        SN   21:16   0:00 awk -v
> >progname=/etc/cron.daily/prelink progname {?????   print progname ":
> >\n"?????   progname="";????       }????       { print; }
> ># root      5965 53.3  0.3  6692 3880 ?        RN   21:16
> >8:50 /usr/sbin/prelink -av -mR -q
> >##################################################
> >
> >######## top extract #########
> > 5965 root      39  19 13420  10m  488 R 86.9  1.0  16:33.11 prelink
> > 6840 gavin     15   0  109m  42m  17m S  4.3  4.2   2:56.27 galeon
> >#############################
> >
> >Any clues welcome.  I'm tempted to kill the app, but since it's running
> >as a daily cron job it might be doing something useful and get over it
> >sometime soon :-) 
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> 
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