Re: Performance hit: symlinks

2003-02-27 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Keith G. Murphy wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > >> >> By using symlinks, filehandle open to the old library will continue >> to work while they are open. > > > Are you *sure* this is a reason to use symlinks? I really thought > old libraries stuck around until all filehandles t

Re: Performance hit: symlinks

2003-02-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 01:15:17PM -0600, Keith G. Murphy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > >on Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:18:46AM +0100, Jeff Elkins > >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > >>Is there one, or if so is it perceptible? For instance, I compiled kde > >>and qt to live

Re: Performance hit: symlinks

2003-02-18 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:18:46AM +0100, Jeff Elkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Is there one, or if so is it perceptible? For instance, I compiled kde and qt to live in /opt. If I moved /opt to /usr/local/kde31 and made /opt a symlink would this create overhead a human

Re: Performance hit: symlinks

2003-02-17 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Monday 17 February 2003 6:18 pm, nate wrote: >no. i've seen systems with many layers of symlinks and there was no >noticable impact either. Just as an experiment, I moved my /opt to /usr/local and symlinked it back to /. I can't notice any difference, that's for sure... Thanks for the respon

Re: Performance hit: symlinks

2003-02-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:18:46AM +0100, Jeff Elkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Is there one, or if so is it perceptible? For instance, I compiled kde and qt > to live in /opt. If I moved /opt to /usr/local/kde31 and made /opt a symlink > would this create overhead a human would notice?

Re: Performance hit: symlinks

2003-02-17 Thread nate
Jeff Elkins said: > Is there one, or if so is it perceptible? For instance, I compiled kde > and qt to live in /opt. If I moved /opt to /usr/local/kde31 and made /opt > a symlink would this create overhead a human would notice? no. i've seen systems with many layers of symlinks and there was no

Re: Performance hit: symlinks

2003-02-17 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Monday 17 February 2003 10:18, Jeff Elkins wrote: > Is there one, or if so is it perceptible? For instance, I compiled kde and > qt to live in /opt. If I moved /opt to /usr/local/kde31 and made /opt a > symlink would this create overhead a human would notice? You most probably wouldn't notice,

Re: Performance hit: symlinks

2003-02-17 Thread Andrew Perrin
No, certainly not that a human would notice. It's an interesting question whether there's a measurable delay at all -- I don't know the answer to that one. Another solution, of course, is to put it in a new partition and then mount the partition at /opt. ap --

Performance hit: symlinks

2003-02-17 Thread Jeff Elkins
Is there one, or if so is it perceptible? For instance, I compiled kde and qt to live in /opt. If I moved /opt to /usr/local/kde31 and made /opt a symlink would this create overhead a human would notice? Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a