From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Nov 11 12: 7: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (placeholder-dcat-1076843399.broadbandoffice.net [64.47.83.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D64037B479; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 12:07:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id eABK6uE27317; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 12:06:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 12:06:56 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200011112006.eABK6uE27317@earth.backplane.com> To: Mike Smith Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The shared /bin and /sbin bikeshed References: <200011110531.eAB5Vq909851@mass.osd.bsdi.com> 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. As far as I can tell, Mike, *I* am the *ONLY* one posting actual test results on this topic. Maybe you should run your own tests rather then just assuming I am wrong and telling me to run more. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message