Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 14:02:40 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Philip Lykke Carlsen <plcplc@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, cswinger@mac.com Subject: Re: Preloading of shared libraries Message-ID: <20051025180238.GC46045@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200510241913.25396.plcplc@gmail.com> References: <200510231749.48212.plcplc@gmail.com> <435BB8FC.8030601@mac.com> <200510241913.25396.plcplc@gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 07:13:25PM +0200, Philip Lykke Carlsen wrote: > Sunday 23 October 2005 18:23 skrev du: > > Philip Lykke Carlsen wrote: > > > Hey.. I wondered if it was possible to load a selection of shared > > > libraies into the cache at boot time.. I figure that it would speed up > > > starting things.. like the KDE login manager for instance.. > > > > > > hm.. is this possible? .. and if so.. would it speed up the process of > > > starting stuff at all?.. > > > > Sort of. At one point, you could set the sticky bit on files as a hint to > > the pager to try and keep them in memory, which was intended for things > > like /bin/sh, cron, login, and maybe libc. > > aah.. I always wondered what the sticky bit actually did.. See sticky(8). It doesn't do any longer what the previous poster said. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDXnM+Wry0BWjoQKURAgbbAJ0U/nuqHNKYXsiVse6EITtFBaW+MQCgkf34 ZaSqJU9CjBdTXRisgrEJses= =9aIm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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