Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 02:31:13 -0400 From: Mike Makonnen <mtm@identd.net> To: Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making a dynamically-linked root Message-ID: <20030603063114.CBRK20810.pop015.verizon.net@kokeb.ambesa.net> In-Reply-To: <20030602201337.GD87863@roark.gnf.org> References: <20030602171942.GA87863@roark.gnf.org> <16091.44150.539095.704531@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20030602201337.GD87863@roark.gnf.org>
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On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 13:13:37 -0700 Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 03:58:46PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > > Wow! That's a 25% pessimization. I'm afraid that other heavily > > scripted and or fork intensive environments may fair just as poorly > > (dynamic web content, SMTP servers, etc) as the startup scripts. > > You need to realize that with the advent of rcNG that their are alot > of additional shell invocations. Also bear in mind that your dynamic > web content and SMTP servers are already going to be dynamically linked. > In fact, the thing that will be hardest hit will be the boot scripts. Gordon, Here's a patch that goes through the most often used portions of rc.d and uses absolute pathnames for commands as well as substite the shell builtin function, test instead of [ ... ]. It shaved 6 seconds off my boot of a statically linked root on an AMD K6-333. Cheers. -- Mike Makonnen | GPG-KEY: http://www.identd.net/~mtm/mtm.asc mtm@identd.net | D228 1A6F C64E 120A A1C9 A3AA DAE1 E2AF DBCC 68B9 mtm@FreeBSD.Org| FreeBSD - The Power To Serve
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