Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 10:03:37 -0800 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org> To: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@palisadesys.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: /bin and /sbin are now dynamically linked Message-ID: <3FBE5379.10201@acm.org> In-Reply-To: <FPEBKMIFGFHCGLLKBLMMOEDACDAA.ghelmer@palisadesys.com> References: <FPEBKMIFGFHCGLLKBLMMOEDACDAA.ghelmer@palisadesys.com>
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Guy Helmer wrote: > Thanks to /rescue and the live filesystem archives on > current.freebsd.org, I was able to recover a machine > that I hosed after the statfs change by trying to installworld > without building & booting a new kernel first. Great! Any changes you could suggest to /rescue based on that experience? > Regarding the performance loss due to the dynamic /bin and /sbin, > wouldn't prebinding help? Probably. Profiling the dynamic-link code would probably also help. NetBSD made this change a long time ago, and Luke Mewburn observed that switching /bin to dynamic linking prompted a lot of people to study and optimize the dynamic linking code, with big wins for programs like Mozilla and OpenOffice that rely heavily on shared libraries. Tim
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