From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <gentoo-dev-return-2469-arch-gentoo-dev=gentoo.org@gentoo.org> Received: (qmail 25400 invoked by uid 1002); 20 Apr 2003 04:51:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev-unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev-subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 27870 invoked from network); 20 Apr 2003 04:51:01 -0000 Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 17:03:39 +1200 From: "leon j. breedt" <ljb@neverborn.org> To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20030420050339.GA1509@jeddah.mshome.net> References: <20030419105721.GA1614@jeddah.neverborn.ORG> <1050776776.3688.6.camel@ndiin> <20030420003917.GB32124@jeddah.neverborn.ORG> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030420003917.GB32124@jeddah.neverborn.ORG> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rc-scripts speedup - or not :/ X-Archives-Salt: a3fb58ca-d500-4dcc-bf24-18a229a7c5f8 X-Archives-Hash: be0406a64499b3a7806f9c7bd13240d2 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 12:39:17PM +1200, leon j. breedt wrote: > well, i went for the all-out approach, and replaced every invocation > with LC_ALL=C <cmd>, and did the export LC_ALL=C before all occurences > of "x start|stop". it felt a bit faster..i'm going to revert to the > existing rc-scripts and see if i can feel a difference. okay, its bad form to reply to your own posts...but i did some very crappy benchmarking (cat /proc/uptime >/tmp/boottime in /etc/conf.d/local.start), and booted each set of rc-scripts 10 times. results inconclusive...sometimes LC_ALL=C booted faster, sometimes without did. and with either enabled, boot times would fluctuate between 17 and 15.9 seconds for a full boot, no clear win with LC_ALL=C enabled. i did some more research, and it seems this hack is necessary on Red Hat because they set LANG to a UTF locale on bootup. something which Gentoo doesn't do. at least, a grep for LANG in /etc turned up nothing. unless grep/awk default to a UTF locale in the absence of LANG, it seems Gentoo is already as fast as it can be in this regard. i think a note should be made if Gentoo at some point in the is going to set LANG, though. sorry about blowing smoke...i think i just witnessed one of faster bootups after changing to LC_ALL=C. this will teach me... leon - -- in the beginning, was the code. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+oiorRWcl5mzp4f4RAvshAJ0SR/gF1HN9bZ9xRMyxmJ2iihlCogCgtsMK uQ8auRfK4rLS+p7TQEQQug8= =QTVk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list