On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 11:26:02AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:

 > while reducing kernel size of 30kB sounds good (and definitely it's worth
 > of work), reducing .data and .bss segment size of system libraries could
 > save such amount for EVERY process. for libc (x86):

If a chunk of .data or .bss from a system library is not touched written
to, then the area is shared with other programs.  It's copy-on-write, as
well as demand-paged, so the behavior isn't really all that bad.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>