Xen [fc4] question

Rik van Riel riel at redhat.com
Wed Mar 9 22:06:01 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Tony Jones wrote:

> So, on the topic of Xen.  What is the advice about /lib/tls and rpm.
> 
> Renaming /lib/tls to tls.disabled, as recommended by the docs and also
> the boot message causes unpleasant locking issues for rpm.  it's a pita
> to have to reenable each time i want to run rpm as root.

The only disadvantage /lib/tls causes currently is a
performance loss.  Eventually we will have a virtualisation
friendly glibc and the performance overhead will be gone.

I just live with the performance overhead - I'd rather my
system run correctly ;)

-- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan




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