*BSD News Article 32481


Return to BSD News archive

Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!news.kei.com!travelers.mail.cornell.edu!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!news.graphics.cornell.edu!ghost.dsi.unimi.it!univ-lyon1.fr!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!uunet!somnet.sandia.gov!elam.mdl.sandia.gov!aflundi
From: aflundi@sandia.gov (Alan F Lundin)
Subject: Where are the lib??.sa.?.? files in FreeBSD 1.1.5?
Message-ID: <1994Jul7.220203.8632@sandia.gov>
Reply-To: aflundi@sandia.gov (Alan F Lundin)
Organization: MDL, Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 1994 22:02:03 GMT
Lines: 15

I loaded ispell from the FreeBSD packages-1.1
directory and was surprised to see how long
it took to get started (16 sec versus about
7 sec on a Sun LX).  Does this have any thing
to do with excessive copy-on-write paging due
to a lack of shared lib .sa. files?  Are the
.so. files at least organizated to minimize
the number of copy-on-write pages?  Why does
the ld(1) man page refer to .sa. files as
"silly archives" (is using .sa. files now
obselete)?

--alan
-- 
Alan Lundin <aflundi@sandia.gov>