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On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 10:45:44 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: |
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> The Ubuntu folks report on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh, that |
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> bootup and also ./configure runs are *WAY* faster if "dash" is used |
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> as /bin/sh instead of bash. |
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I've just tried it on my 1GHz iBook and boot time dropped from 74s to |
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60s. That's timed from selecting a bootloader option to the root prompt |
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appearing, less the time taken to type in my luks/dm-crypt passphrase. |
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Most of the saving came in the early part of the boot process, the part |
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before the password prompt (which comes from bootmisc AFAIK). It looked |
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like the udev stuff happened quicker, but I can't quantify that. |
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Anyway, a 20% reduction in boot time is nice, wherever it happens. Thanks |
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for the pointer. |
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> Did anyone try this out on Gentoo? Are the boot scripts from Gentoo |
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> strictly POSIX compliant? |
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I saw no errors, so they are certainly WFM compliant :) |
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