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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!ieunet!news.ieunet.ie!jkh 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 Lines: 24 Message-ID: <JKH.94Jul8011514@whisker.hubbard.ie> References: <1994Jul7.220203.8632@sandia.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: whisker.hubbard.ie 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 -- Jordan K. Hubbard FreeBSD core team Clams are your friends