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From: jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Where are the lib??.sa.?.? files in FreeBSD 1.1.5?
Date: 08 Jul 1994 01:15:14 GMT
Organization: Jordan Hubbard
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Message-ID: <JKH.94Jul8011514@whisker.hubbard.ie>
References: <1994Jul7.220203.8632@sandia.gov>
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In-reply-to: aflundi@sandia.gov's message of Thu, 7 Jul 1994 22:02:03 GMT

In article <1994Jul7.220203.8632@sandia.gov> aflundi@sandia.gov (Alan F Lundin) writes:

   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

Save version of ispell, I presume?  How much memory on each machine?

   to do with excessive copy-on-write paging due
   to a lack of shared lib .sa. files?  Are the

What makes you think that the lack of .sa files causes a lot of extra
COW operatings under FreeBSD?  I'd like to see some stats please!

   "silly archives" (is using .sa. files now
   obselete)?

They are in certain implementations.  I don't see as they're a
necessity, if you handle your resolution of global data properly.

					Jordan
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Jordan K. Hubbard	FreeBSD core team	Clams are your friends