What are the pros and cons of disabling prelinking in CentOS 4?
From what I understand, prelinking is ment to be performance improvement (faster loading time for binaries). I can see some potential benefit on workstations where many different processes are started frequently. But how big is that benefit in real life? Would I slow down things noticably if there is no prelinking?
Is there any benefit at all of having prelinking on a server box that runs couple of daemons which are started only at boot time, and then they either use threads or fork themself to handle requests? In either case, such processes are fully (or at least mostly) linked at boot time. For example servers running stuff like Sendmail or Postfix, Dovecot or Cyrus-IMAPD, Squid, MySQL, LDAP and such.