Whether removing prelinking is safe if it is causing high cpu usage?

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Issue

  • We noticed that prelink instance consume high CPU resources on the host. Oracle DB host.
23239 root 39 19 99456 1624 596 D 4.7 0.0 0:00.48 prelink <<<<<<<<<< prelink running
  • Whether removing prelinking is safe especially on oracle DB hosts with >207GB SGA.
  • What is performance penalty of disabling prelinking?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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