From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 8 05:48:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA24971 for current-outgoing; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 05:48:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from helios.dnttm.ru (root@dnttm.wave.ras.ru [194.85.104.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA24919; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 05:47:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dima@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by helios.dnttm.ru (8.8.5/8.8.5/IP-3) with UUCP id QAA14402; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 16:30:29 +0300 Received: from tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA15578; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 16:36:12 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from dima@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru) Message-Id: <199802081336.QAA15578@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 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) In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 06 Feb 1998 22:50:01 EST." <199802070350.WAA00681@dyson.iquest.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 16:36:12 +0300 From: Dmitrij Tejblum Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "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