Hmm, according to: Nokia-N900:~# time cat /root/libQtGui.so.4.7.4 > /dev/null real 0m 5.52s user 0m 0.00s sys 0m 5.30s Nokia-N900:~# time cat /opt/libQtGui.so.4.7.4 > /dev/null real 0m 4.97s user 0m 0.03s sys 0m 1.02s I should move Qt back to /opt ASAP . Any thoughts? Note: libQtGui.so.4.7.4 is 95510528 bytes long (QtGui debug symbols)