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On Friday 01 September 2006 17:21, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > Speaking of which, you probably should see the shell used in the |
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> > scripts from the sys-apps/baselayout package. All shell scripts |
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> > use /bin/bash and not /bin/sh. |
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> > So linking (d)ash as the default shell doesn't nearly have the impact |
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> > you'd like it to have. |
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> A 20% reduction in boot time is a reasonable impact IMO. |
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Any chance that was a fluke? |
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I've done a few reboots with bootchart to confirm this and I don't get any |
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speedup. In fact /bin/sh is never called because the gentoo init scripts |
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explicitly use bash. (sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.4-r7) |
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