From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 24 18:03:18 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEACF16A4CE for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 18:03:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DE5543FAF for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 18:03:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id hAP234hk054458; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 12:33:04 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: frank@exit.com, Steve Kargl Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 12:33:03 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <200311250153.hAP1rTOG019360@realtime.exit.com> In-Reply-To: <200311250153.hAP1rTOG019360@realtime.exit.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311251233.03642.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -3.6 () CARRIAGE_RETURNS,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_05_08,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_KMAIL X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: Andrew Gallatin cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 40% slowdown with dynamic /bin/sh X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 02:03:18 -0000 On Tuesday 25 November 2003 12:23, Frank Mayhar wrote: > > Let's see. You dislike the dynamic root decision enough that > > you are considering the abandonment of FreeBSD. Then when > > you're told that you can still build a static root if you > > need/want it, you make a sarcastic remark. > > It wasn't sarcastic, it was serious. Needing to have special configuration > defeats the purpose of running FreeBSD for me. I'm busy enough that I > don't have time to deal with everything _now_; adding something else I have > to keep track of for a half-dozen systems is something else I just don't > need. You DO know FreeBSD is a cooperative project right? I hardly think you're in a position to complain about a (probably very minor) performance loss which has a trivial work around, which also benefits a fair number of users. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5