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On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 12:39:17PM +1200, leon j. breedt wrote: |
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> well, i went for the all-out approach, and replaced every invocation |
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> with LC_ALL=C <cmd>, and did the export LC_ALL=C before all occurences |
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> of "x start|stop". it felt a bit faster..i'm going to revert to the |
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> existing rc-scripts and see if i can feel a difference. |
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okay, its bad form to reply to your own posts...but i did some very crappy |
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benchmarking (cat /proc/uptime >/tmp/boottime in /etc/conf.d/local.start), |
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and booted each set of rc-scripts 10 times. |
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results inconclusive...sometimes LC_ALL=C booted faster, sometimes without |
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did. and with either enabled, boot times would fluctuate between 17 and |
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15.9 seconds for a full boot, no clear win with LC_ALL=C enabled. |
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i did some more research, and it seems this hack is necessary on Red Hat |
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because they set LANG to a UTF locale on bootup. something which Gentoo |
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doesn't do. at least, a grep for LANG in /etc turned up nothing. |
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unless grep/awk default to a UTF locale in the absence of LANG, |
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it seems Gentoo is already as fast as it can be in this regard. |
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i think a note should be made if Gentoo at some point in the |
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is going to set LANG, though. |
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sorry about blowing smoke...i think i just witnessed one of faster bootups |
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after changing to LC_ALL=C. this will teach me... |
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leon |
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