On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 01:56:13PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Hi people, > > I just wondered why exactly my laptop uses that much time for updates > and I think that calling ldconfig is a main problem. In theory, it > should not cost much time because VFS cache has the relevant file parts. > However, if memory is limited and there are other applications running, > the VFS cache is flushed sooner thank you think, especially with > today's count of various libraries in /usr/lib. > > I think, it would be enough to call ldconfig only once after dpkg is > trough. Reasons: > > - there are no dangerous transitions (libc5->libc6) that would require > having updated ld.so.cache immediately > - all applications should follow the ld.so.conf paths if something is > not in the cache. No problem here.
ld.so manpage imply the opposite. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
