From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Nov 10 21:26:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-206-90-77.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.206.90.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A111737B4C5 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 21:26:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eAB5Vq909851; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 21:31:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200011110531.eAB5Vq909851@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Matt Dillon Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The shared /bin and /sbin bikeshed In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 10 Nov 2000 20:48:58 PST." <200011110448.eAB4mw122602@earth.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 21:31:52 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message