ELF Binary Stripper?

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Tony Nelson wrote:

> At 9:43 AM -0400 10/13/05, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> ...
>> I wonder if nicing it would avoid the problem of making your machine
>> unresponsive.  I don't see why it has to run at regular priority.
>
> I see a renice +19 in /etc/cron.daily/prelink.  Of course, this won't

Oops, missed that when I glanced at it.

> reduce the CPU usage below 100%, it just changes who gets it first.

So it shouldn't make a system unusable in any case (unless maybe the 
system is memory constrained and swapping along with everything else).

>
>
>> Also, the amount of work prelink does can be controlled in
>> /etc/sysconfig/prelink.  Normally, it should be quick (only bins and libs
>> that have changed), but every two weeks it runs normally.  If you aren't
>> upgrading RPMs, it apparently doesn't do anything at all until after a
>> week elapses.
> ...
>
> Anything that confuses prelink enough that it always runs a full prelink
> would make it take a long time.  Perhaps it can't find /etc/prelink.cache
> or it thinks the cache is bad or some such.  Perhaps -v would help diagnose
> the problem, as would running it directly and observing.

And (disregarding philosophical objections to prelink "munging" binaries) 
would seen to be the most utilitarian approach to solving the problem.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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