Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 07:40:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Making a dynamically-linked root Message-ID: <16092.35144.948752.554975@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <20030603113927.I71313@cvs.imp.ch>
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Martin Blapp writes: > > Hi, > > >I don't want to sound harsh, and I do appreciate your work. However, > >I think the last thing FreeBSD needs now is to get slower. We're > >already far slower than that other free OS. Shouldn't we consider > >making the dynamic root optional and leaving a static root as > >standard? > > This is during startup. Webservers and all other applications are > still dynamically linked as before. No speed loss there. > Webservers and all other applications which run shell scripts exec a shell to interpret that script. Regardless of how the parent is linked, if the exec'ed shell is dynamically linked, there is an added cost to exec'ing it. Drewhome | help
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