Kbase 17225: Strip images for performance improvement on Digital UNIX
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
10/05/1998 |
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Strip images for performance improvement on Digital UNIX
Stripping Image Modules to Improve Performance
on Digital UNIX
The following is an excerpt from the V8 release notes regarding
the Digital UNIX platform:
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9.6 Stripping image modules to improve performance
The size of the executable images can be reduced by stripping
the image modules, and the performance will also be improved.
To strip the image, use the following command:
strip <image_module_name>
Because the strip command removes symbols from the executable
images, we recommend that customers should also keep the
non-stripped images for debugging purposes.
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NOTES: 1. Testing of stripping images has shown
performance improvement on Digital UNIX
but not on other UNIX platforms.
2. Estimates for performance improvement
or benchmarks using stripped images are
not available. Customers should test
with their application to see if running
with stripped images is worthwhile.
3. There are no known issues to running with
a stripped image. The risk to running with
stripped images is that in the event of a
problem, a stacktrace from a core file would
not be obtainable. Therefore, if a problem
is encountered, it may be required that you
go back to using the un-stripped images in
order for Tech Support to troubleshoot the
problem.
Progress Software Technical Support Note # 17225