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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GJ6vZ-0003S9-4s for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 01 Sep 2006 11:11:13 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k81B8Mo7000912; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 11:08:22 GMT Received: from desiato.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k81B3dat008769 for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 11:03:40 GMT Received: from hactar.digimed.co.uk (hactar.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.2]) by desiato.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBC707BDF for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 12:03:39 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 12:03:35 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dash as /bin/sh? Message-ID: <20060901120335.48773864@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <2102237.F9AAudgNz4@work.message-center.info> References: <2102237.F9AAudgNz4@work.message-center.info> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.5.0-rc2 (GTK+ 2.10.2; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/056i6m=vjFmu5ycfV_ObS6"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 2d9f6e8d-30ca-45ff-9b4d-ee6af94ff258 X-Archives-Hash: ee2a1c30442c2928e44e83035d52cacf --Sig_/056i6m=vjFmu5ycfV_ObS6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 10:45:44 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > The Ubuntu folks report on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh, that > bootup and also ./configure runs are *WAY* faster if "dash" is used > as /bin/sh instead of bash. I've just tried it on my 1GHz iBook and boot time dropped from 74s to 60s. That's timed from selecting a bootloader option to the root prompt appearing, less the time taken to type in my luks/dm-crypt passphrase. Most of the saving came in the early part of the boot process, the part before the password prompt (which comes from bootmisc AFAIK). It looked like the udev stuff happened quicker, but I can't quantify that. Anyway, a 20% reduction in boot time is nice, wherever it happens. Thanks for the pointer. > Did anyone try this out on Gentoo? Are the boot scripts from Gentoo > strictly POSIX compliant? I saw no errors, so they are certainly WFM compliant :) --=20 Neil Bothwick I'm Bugs Bunny of Borg. What's up Collective? --Sig_/056i6m=vjFmu5ycfV_ObS6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE+BOLum4al0N1GQMRAl/3AJ9mwYkPi57uQcIrkVP9ojM647bcJgCdHB8A G1KDZ8Vmr2EvbPNvN1Vl++A= =W9yI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/056i6m=vjFmu5ycfV_ObS6-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list