From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EKdUD-0004NV-UI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:04:46 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j8SEu1Fq011906; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 14:56:01 GMT Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.192]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j8SEu0Uh028777 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 14:56:01 GMT Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s7so77366wxc for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 08:03:13 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=PUol+4jj4wLcfT0+j8cannhMm26Y899mk8izRtRLkmx8Jc2Az2/f9JLSdGn9wBzul5uZdlBAnhogFiQjyxQ3RBdD9FD71Tcr9qQm4JGQcVhqkWPusmvwo6R0T/WHxyNWDIBrWrx5zwM8vIYtzTiWLuDYbfTQBLsiUP4kR9wIU0E= Received: by 10.70.112.10 with SMTP id k10mr292408wxc; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 08:03:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.115.1 with HTTP; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 08:03:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:03:13 +0000 From: Eduardo Tongson To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] other *libc In-Reply-To: <20050928142047.GD10967@home.power> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-server@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050928142047.GD10967@home.power> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j8SEu0Uh028777 X-Archives-Salt: 6cd4c434-4d40-46c1-ae3a-65ad6906a141 X-Archives-Hash: 4193cefed2be9b1bb73e8f5e7645c2e1 > Hi! > > Is it has sense to switch from glibc to dietlibc or uClibc or maybe other? > > How this can be done in Gentoo? > > Is it possible to have system without glibc at all or I must have glibc > together with dietlibc (for example) and have some software compiled > with glibc and some with dietlibc? > You can try out the uclibc embedded stages here works as a glibc replacement. Dietlibc shared libraries are very much experimental too. But using it to compile static binaries is quite reliable in my experience. > How using other *libc will affect server performance (this is most important > question here)? YMMV, using dietlibc and uClibc only makes sense with embedded setups > > Any problems because of not using glibc? > > Is anybody has real server based on non-glibc? > Good luck :-) --ed -- gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list