Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 10:14:17 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: ryanm@accn.org, "freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Symbolic Links to Servers Message-ID: <19990328101417.M53452@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <36FB939F.5352BAA4@accn.org>; from ryanm on Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 09:03:11AM -0500 References: <36FB939F.5352BAA4@accn.org>
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On Friday, 26 March 1999 at 9:03:11 -0500, ryanm wrote: > Hello everyone I am using FreeBSD 3.1 and wondering if a symbolic > link to an often hit server makes any performance differences?? > for upgradeability I always do the same thing: > > /usr/local/etc/qpopper-2.53 # ACTUAL DAEMON > /usr/local/etc/qpopper -> /usr/local/etc/qpopper-2.53 > > that way I can copy over qpopper to /usr/local/etc change > the link and not muck with inetd except for restarting it. > Does anyone know what type of performance penalties could > come from this?? Thanks for any information anyone can > provide me with. I'm not sure what difference you're expecting here. But you'll get a fractional performance impact with a symlink as compared with a hard link: it needs to open and read the link, then open and execute the file to which it's linked. Why not use a hard link? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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