From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon) Subject: Re: libc.so.4.2 Caveats! Date: 5 Jan 1993 15:26:24 GMT
M.Gream@uts.EDU.AU (Matthew Gream) writes:
>Giles D Malet (gdm@shrdlu.kwnet.on.ca) wrote:
>: You have already been told how to reduce the program size (-N).
> Correct me if I am wrong, but doesnt -N also mean that the program is
>not demand page linked? In otherwords at execution time the entire
>file is loaded into memory.
>Matthew.
>--
Yes this is true, and so I wouldn't do it to big binaries like bash, or emacs.
But, what most people are trying to do is get their little programs down to
the smallest possible size. When a program hits 1-2k in size demand paging
isn't going to help. It will all get loaded in almost immediatl under that
scheme anyways.
James