Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 16:36:12 +0300 From: Dmitrij Tejblum <dima@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru> To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), abial@nask.pl, tlambert@primenet.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Custom init(8) (and some ideas) Message-ID: <199802081336.QAA15578@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 06 Feb 1998 22:50:01 EST." <199802070350.WAA00681@dyson.iquest.net>
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"John S. Dyson" wrote: > I think that I might have misinformed here. Gzipped binaries need swap > backing store for each page in the image even for .text section, when > physical memory space needs to be freed for another page. Non-gzipped > binaries can depend on paging off of the a.out itself. Also, non-gzipped > binaries don't have to page out the .text for the initial freeing of the > .text space. Gzipped binaries need to page out the .text pages when they > are individually freed due to pageout daemon activity. Also, gzipped > binaries are not demand-loaded, but are loaded at startup. Also, (unpacked) .text section of gzipped binaries is not shared among several copies of same program, like in case of normal program. If I understand correctly, this is a big problem for Andrzej, since all his program is crunched together. If text and data were gzipped separately, the life, probably, could be easier. Dima To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe current" in the body of the message
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