[Zlib-devel] [PATCH] Makefile.in: removed call to ldconfig

[Mike Frysinger]

On Friday, July 23, 2010 16:47:15 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Friday, July 23, 2010 16:14:05 Török Edwin wrote:
> > On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:02:49 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > On Friday, July 23, 2010 15:28:08 Török Edwin wrote:
> > > > IMHO safest is to just run ldconfig with no params, zlib is doing
> > > > just that, so it is fine.
> > > 
> > > the obnoxious thing is that on any sizable systems, ldconfig can chew
> > > through the disk
> > 
> > Yes, but only the first time:
>
> no, only when the disk cache is cold for those files, and that can easily
> go cold while doing different things on a desktop system.

and can easily make the disk cache for your active apps go cold, thus causing 
obnoxious thrashing between the two
-mike
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