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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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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.
>=20
> 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

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