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Re: DLOPEN and Statically linked executable
- From: "Steve Munroe" <sjmunroe at us dot ibm dot com>
- To: Peter Zaitsev <peter at mysql dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 10:36:03 -0500
- Subject: Re: DLOPEN and Statically linked executable
Peter Zaitsev wrote:
> At MySQL we use patched version of GLIBC for MySQL binary
> distribution and so have to compile it statically. This patched
> version of GLIBC is must to handle high load, it uses smaller thread
> stack size instead of default 2M and has different mutex handling,
> so less context switches will happen in case of MySQL and will give
> better performance.
Have you considered linking shared and using LD_PRELOAD to override
any functions that are you would normally get from libc.so?