On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 14:07, Nick Harring wrote: > Well, I'll not flame, but I will correct. Stripping removes debugging > symbols only which only get loaded, iirc, when you load the binary in a > debugger like gdb.
Thanks, I'll have to look more into this as it's something that I'd like to understand better. > The case for dynamic versus static libraries is a tricky one. With > dynamic you do load the same libraries over and over for one shot > binaries, however if they execute often enough, like vdelivermail on a > busy server, the cache will keep it in memory. Of course, this may also > be true of the larger binaries that are statically linked. Generally > though you'll end up suffering more with statically linked binaries that > get called often because they consume more of your cache, and each is > more likely to get expired from the cache since they don't reference > anything in common, whereas with a shared library that several often > executed binaries load its more likely to stay in cache since the > FS/VFS/whatever sees it being accessed more often. yea, it's probably a small enough trade off one way or the other that it wouldn't matter. -Jeremy -- Jeremy Kitchen Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kitchen @ #qmail on EFNet - Join the party! ..................... Inter7 Internet Technologies, Inc. www.inter7.com 866.528.3530 toll free 847.492.0470 int'l 847.492.0632 fax GNUPG key ID: 93BDD6CE
