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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
>


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