Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 09:34:55 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: peter@haywire.dialix.com (Peter Wemm) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A couple of things Message-ID: <5247.816251695@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "13 Nov 1995 06:58:12 %2B0800." <485u64$2he$1@haywire.DIALix.COM>
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> I've not looked at the gzip exec code, but what are the odds that each > executable launched from the crunched image is using up it's own > amount of ram and swap space rather than sharing pages? Or does it > try and be smart by associating the the ungzipped pages with the file > so that when the crunched image is run, the ungzipped pages are reclaimed? No, it doesn't do any kind of optimizations, what it really should do was to create a vnode for the unzipped file, and share the text as usual. Nobody I have talked to finds it worth doing. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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