From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 26 16:38:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sr14.nsw-remote.bigpond.net.au (sr14.nsw-remote.bigpond.net.au [24.192.3.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 127DC37B68D for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 16:38:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from areilly@nsw.bigpond.net.au) Received: from areilly.bpc-users.org (CPE-144-132-245-92.nsw.bigpond.net.au [144.132.245.92]) by sr14.nsw-remote.bigpond.net.au (Pro-8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA01541 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 08:30:58 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 73704 invoked by uid 1000); 26 Jul 2000 22:30:57 -0000 From: "Andrew Reilly" Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 08:30:57 +1000 To: Nate Williams Cc: Mike Smith , Julian Stacey , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF rtld and environment variables... Message-ID: <20000727083057.A73044@gurney.reilly.home> References: <200007261337.NAA70530@park.jhs.no_domain> <200007262001.NAA39194@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <200007262000.OAA13499@nomad.yogotech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200007262000.OAA13499@nomad.yogotech.com>; from nate@yogotech.com on Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 02:00:46PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 02:00:46PM -0600, Nate Williams wrote: > > No, that's the one case where they help. But people aren't trying to > > squeeze whole systems into small disks anymore; > > Really? News to me... Well, even if there are/were folk who want tiny disk footprints, and crunching everything isn't going to do the whole job, wouldn't a compressed filesystem be a better way to approach this? At least that way you'd still be able to page from the executable(s), and all of the on-disk data would bennefit too. (I've read serious suggestions in comp.arch that it could be benneficial to compress DRAM, with hardware decompression/ compression on the way in and out of cache...) -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message