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Date:      Mon, 24 Nov 2003 20:50:41 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 40% slowdown with dynamic /bin/sh
Message-ID:  <16322.46449.554372.358751@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200311251214.23290.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
References:  <16322.26365.159173.946033@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <200311251049.18227.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20031125012208.GD46761@dan.emsphone.com> <200311251214.23290.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>

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Daniel O'Connor writes:
 > 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.
 > 

I'll bet a larger percentage of our users build ports than need nss or
ldap.

Drew



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