Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 15:23:52 +0100 From: "Floris 'Tamama' van Gog" <floris@vangog.net> To: "Andrew Gallatin" <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: slow startup of programs Message-ID: <005a01c187cf$9eb61e40$1900a8c0@pc48> References: <003201c187cb$1342a490$1900a8c0@pc48> <15391.20062.61494.764067@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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Thanks, this explains a lot. When was this 'bug' introduced? I am currently running 4.4-release. Floris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Gallatin" <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: "Floris 'Tamama' van Gog" <floris@vangog.net> Cc: <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 3:10 PM Subject: Re: slow startup of programs > > Floris 'Tamama' van Gog writes: > > Hi, > > > > I recently installed FreeBSD on an axpci33 Alpha (166Mhz) and it has.. > > 'issues' :-) > > Every program I run takes 4 seconds to start.. even 'clear'. This doesnt > > sound right.. 'halt' on the other hand executes immediately. > > > > Does anyone have any ideas what this could be and or how i can fix it? I > > considered the possibility of a slow video interface, but i recently got > > ssh to work properly and it has the same problem when connected from > > another computer. > > There was a performance bug in the runtime dynamic linker/loader > (rtld). Most people never noticed because they're not running on > obsolete computers whose main memory is slower than some modern disk > drives ;-P Doug fixed it when he noticed KDE was slow on a more modern > machine. > > Anyway, use cvsup (or anoncvs, or whatever) & get the latest RELENG_4 > (stable) sources. Build & install /usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf. Be > careful, messing up the rtld is a good way to end up with a mostly > unusable system -- make a backup of /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1. > > Drew > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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