From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 22 14:48:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4924237B6B0 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 14:48:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.77.116] (helo=gateway.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #2) id 14Kpl9-0000lc-00; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 22:48:23 +0000 Received: from buffy.raggedclown.net (btvs.demon.nl [192.168.1.2]) by gateway.raggedclown.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AC5B5DB0; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 23:46:58 +0100 (CET) Received: by buffy.raggedclown.net (Postfix on SuSE Linux 7.0 (i386), from userid 500) id 49BA612C4C; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 23:38:11 +0100 (CET) From: Cliff Sarginson Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 23:38:09 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG To: Jonathan Chen References: <20010122211309.A958@raggedclown.net> <20010123113323.A99885@itouchnz.itouch> In-Reply-To: <20010123113323.A99885@itouchnz.itouch> Subject: Re: small program eats lot of memory MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01012223380901.01564@buffy> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday 22 January 2001 23:33, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 09:13:09PM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > [...] > > > Ok. But shared libraries have nothing to do with saving disk > > space.. > > 1000 programs linked against a shared library use less space that > 1000 programs linked against a static library. You should read the rest of this thread. The point is that shared libraries were not invented for that sole purpose. Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message