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Daniel O'Connor writes:
 > On Tuesday 25 November 2003 11:52, Dan Nelson wrote:
 >  > > I'd greatly prefer that the the dynamic root default be backed out
 > > > > until a substantial amount of this performance can be recovered.
 > > >
 > > > What _REAL WORLD_ task does this slow down?
 > >
 > > Try timing "cd /usr/ports/www/mozilla-devel ; make clean" with static
 > > and dynamic /bin.  bsd.port.mk spawns many many many /bin/sh processes.
 > 
 > OK my bad, it will probably slow down the ports building.
 > 

I'll bet a larger percentage of our users build ports than need nss or
ldap.

Drew