Making a dynamically-linked root

[Martin Blapp]

Hi,

>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
>making the dynamic root optional and leaving a static root as
>standard?

This is during startup. Webservers and all other applications are
still dynamically linked as before. No speed loss there.

There are other places to speed up the startup ...

For example, with my dhclient patch you can speedup the startup
time by 5 seconds if you use dhcp ...

Martin

Martin Blapp, <mb at imp.ch> <mbr at FreeBSD.org>
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