Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 19:25:52 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <freebsd-performance@freebsd.org> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ten thousand small processes Message-ID: <20030623022552.GD52619@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <3EF55072.30104@mac.com> References: <20030621185821.30070.qmail@cr.yp.to> <3EF55072.30104@mac.com>
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On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 02:45:06AM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: > D. J. Bernstein wrote: > [ ... ] > >I don't care much about the 3-page text segment. But I do care about the > >39 extra pages of VM, and the 8 extra pages of DRAM. There's no obstacle > >to having a small program fit into _one_ page per process; two or three > >can be excused, but 39 is absurd. (Yes, I know that Solaris is worse.) > > Indeed-- Solaris insists that all programs be dynamicly linked; Sun claims > that > staticly linked programs violate the SPARC ABI. No, staticly linked programs viloate the general ELF (System V) ABI (also known as gABI). -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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