Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 17:22:54 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: davidg@root.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: 2.0.5 Eager to go into swap Message-ID: <9508022122.AA19365@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199508022102.OAA00999@corbin.Root.COM> References: <m0sdkah-0004JaC@nero.uucp> <199508022102.OAA00999@corbin.Root.COM>
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<<On Wed, 02 Aug 1995 14:02:52 -0700, David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> said:
> to do about it. Ironically, shared libraries are supposed to help this
> situation, but in FreeBSD they are so un-optimally ordered that applications
> wind up consuming as much memory as they would if built non-shared (static).
> The solution to this problem is to order the routines so that commonly used
> ones are all grouped together, and further group together related routines.
> This is difficult for two reasons: first, we don't have the statistics to know
> how to order the routines properly, and second, our library build procedure
> really doesn't allow for this.
Actually, the same `lorder ${OBJS} | tsort' technique ought to have
some beneficial effect. This doesn't group together commonly-used
routines, but it does group modules near each other based on
dependency.
-GAWollman
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