Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 20:55:31 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 40% slowdown with dynamic /bin/sh Message-ID: <16322.46739.544236.261395@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <200311251212.59933.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <200311250106.hAP16qNp018512@realtime.exit.com> <200311251212.59933.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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Daniel O'Connor writes: > > It is _trivial_ to buildworld with a static root. Then its equally trivial to build with a dynamic root. Please do so, and don't wreck the performance of the OS I've used since 1994. > Why didn't you pipe up when this was discussed _long_ ago? In the orginal thread, there was an agreement that the performance would be measured BEFORE the default was changed, and the default would only be changed if there was no measurable performance impact. I believe sam@ asked for this. As far as I know, performance measurments were never done. Instead, the switch was thrown just before the code freeze. > > If you are deploying FreeBSD on servers you should build your own release > anyway (which is hardly an onerous task). > Its pretty hard to use the binary update tools that way. Drew
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