On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 1:48 AM, Peter Kjellstrom <cap at nsc.liu.se> wrote: > On Wednesday 30 June 2010, Spiro Harvey wrote: >> Aleksey Tsalolikhin <atsaloli.tech at gmail.com> wrote: >> > (a) account for the difference in the binaries, and >> > (b) see if something else is different that I can make the same to get >> > the mkfs.ext3 time down to 15 sec on both systems. >> > Solving (a) should shed light on (b). Any ideas? >> >> Look into prelinking (man prelink). A prelinker from /etc/cron.daily >> that changes the binaries with an aim to speed up execution. Yes, actually the full "rpm -V" message mentions prelink: [root at server2 ~]# rpm -V e2fsprogs prelink: /sbin/mkfs.ext3: at least one of file's dependencies has changed since prelinking S.?....T /sbin/mkfs.ext3 [root at server2 ~]# I will RTFM on prelink. Thank you, Spiro, all! Aleksey