On 09/28/2012 07:30 PM, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: > From: Lars Hecking Sent: September 28, 2012 05:30 >> >> I have a number of CentOS6 machines, and on one of them, the >> daily prelink >> cron job aborts. Any ideas what to look for? > > Hi Lars: > > I can not tell you much about prelink however we recently encountered > a similar problem. Check the /var/log/prelink/prelink.log file for > more details on what caused the abort. > > We were not able to resolve our issue and decided to disable prelink > (there seems to be much differing opinions as to whether or not prelink > is still required). If you decide to disable prelink then Dag Wieers > has instructions on his web site on how to do this: > > http://dag.wieers.com/howto/compatibility/ > > So far we have not noticed any significant performance issues as a > result of this change. Prelink is useful on desktop systems where it improves the startup performance of applications. On a server you don't really care if apache, mysql, etc. take 50ms longer to start. Regards, Dennis