Prelink maxing out CPU

[Marcus White]

It was constant for about 15 minutes when I noticed it. Now if it kick
off at 4:00am means it ran for about an hour... What would be considered
a sane amount of time? I did run the updates from the 6th...


On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 05:38, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 05:24:42AM -0400, Marcus White wrote:
> > G'day,
> > 
> > This morning noticed that my test laptop, Compaq Armada M700 w/128 Mb
> > and 400Mhz CPU, was running sluggish (even more so that is). The only
> > open app, other than normal system apps and KDE, was "ooimpress". The
> > "prelink" program was utilizing about 90% of the CPU. Closing
> 
> For how long? Utilizing 90% of the CPU is nothing bad, as long as it
> finishes in sane amount of time. The amount of work prelink does depends
> on how many packages you've upgraded since last prelinking (on 24hrs
> running boxes this is done nightly) and how many packages depend on them.
> 
> prelink is run reniced to +19, so scheduler should give preference to
> other programs. Your problem is probably that you have very small amount
> of memory and are trying to run memory hog (ooimpress) at the same time
> with prelinking, so they compete for memory.
> 
> 	Jakub
> 
> 
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