Is Prelink needed?

[ZiaTioN]

Yeah I know, I am full of questions today.

I have just recently installed Fedors Core 1 on a system at work to use for some remote scripting and local webserver hosting. I have noticed though that the prelinking process in cron.daily is chewing up about 90% of my cpu usage. This of course is making my system unbearably slow.

Any idea why this process is using so much resources? I have read about this app and it seems a bit ironic due to the fact that this is suppose to make the whole system run faster and smoother. I am also under the impression that it is only suppose to take a few seconds to minutes to run and then exit. My prelink app has been running for hours all the while killing the system.

Is this even needed because I have heard mixed reviews about the prelinking process. If I need to keep this process enabled (or leave as a cron job) is there any way I can make it run and quit after a few seconds (like I think it is suppose to) or to not chew up so much resources when it is running?

[Void Main]

You could just remove the /etc/cron.daily/prelink file so it doesn't run. I believe once it has prelinked all your files though it shouldn't have to do it again, but I'm not familiar with it. See "man prelink" for more information on what it does.