Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 21:31:52 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The shared /bin and /sbin bikeshed Message-ID: <200011110531.eAB5Vq909851@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 10 Nov 2000 20:48:58 PST." <200011110448.eAB4mw122602@earth.backplane.com>
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> The problem with that 92K of data space is that it contains
> data elements for the entire libc library, not just the
> pieces you use. The result is that even if you only use a
> small part of libc, you will still wind up dirtying many of
> those pages due to the fact that the few elements you do
> use are spread all over that 92K of data space.
You might want to check this, actually. How much statically initialised
data is there in libc? Not much. 8) You may touch a lot of that 92k,
but you're not going to COW very much at all, so you still get the LOR
benefits.
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people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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