Prelink eating all my resources

[William Hooper]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
[snip]
> So I googled for prelink and now know that it helps preload libraries
> so that progreams can start faster. Which is senseable because the machine
> started slowing down when I clicked 'manage bookmarks' in firefox, which
> opens another program.

This has nothing to do with the running prelink process.

> My question is, what can I do to prevent this from
> happening again? Do I have to ust cross my fingers every time I open a new
> program?

Prelink is called from a cron script, not as a result of any action you
do.  If your machine is turned off at the normal time for the job to run,
it will be run about an hour after you start your machine.  The job only
prelinks that binaries that it needs too, so unless you have updated some
libraries or programs, the job should run quickly.

If you choose to disable prelink, you should change the
/etc/sysconfig/prelink configuration file.

-- 
William Hooper