Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 18:07:22 -0800 (PST) From: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> To: doconnor@gsoft.com.au Cc: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Subject: Re: 40% slowdown with dynamic /bin/sh Message-ID: <200311250207.hAP27MeF009247@gw.catspoiler.org> In-Reply-To: <200311251214.23290.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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On 25 Nov, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > 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. The ports infrastructure is horribly slow even with a static sh, though not as glacially slow as installing and patching Solaris 9.
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