Making a dynamically-linked root

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 03:58:46PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> Gordon Tetlow writes:
>  > 
>  > There will be a performance hit associated with this. I did a quick
>  > measurement at boot and my boot time (from invocation of /etc/rc to
>  > the login prompt) went from 12 seconds with a static root to 15
>  > seconds with a dynamic root. I have yet to perform a worldstone on
>  > it.
> 
> Wow!  That's a 25% pessimization.  I'm afraid that other heavily
> scripted and or fork intensive environments may fair just as poorly
> (dynamic web content, SMTP servers, etc) as the startup scripts.
> 
> I don't want to sound harsh, and I do appreciate your work.  However,
> I think the last thing FreeBSD needs now is to get slower.  We're
> already far slower than that other free OS.  Shouldn't we consider

Can you show any evidence of how slow is RELENG_5 (and _4) compared to
those "other free OS"?  Some folks make such statements occasionally,
but I haven't heard of any decent benchmarks from them.  That would be
interesting to know though.  Thank you.

./danfe