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Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 09:12:06AM -0500, Preston Boyington wrote:
>> Chris Bannister wrote:
>> <snipped>
>>> Where are your bottlenecks?
>> currently my two biggest bottlenecks are with the networking and the  
>> MTA.  i installed "ifplugd" and set a faster timeout for the network and  
>> that has helped.  i don't really "need" a MTA for my laptop and will be  
>> looking for some alternative.  have thought about just removing Exim and  
>> dealing with whatever dependency issues arise.  i can always just look  
>> at the log files for info if i need to.
> 
> I think that is a DNS lookup issue.
> 
>>> I altered the link from /bin/sh to point to /bin/dash instead of
>>> /bin/bash but I'm not sure if I got a big improvement. It seems
>>> reasonably fast though. :-)
>> i have been using zsh recently and it has worked pretty well so far.
> 
> No, the shell *you* use is determined by the line in /etc/passwd. What I
> meant was the shell used to execute the initscripts.
> 
> What does:
> 
>       # ls -al /bin/sh
> 
> produce?
> 
> If it comes back as pointing to /bin/bash then try pointing /bin/sh to
> /bin/dash and see if there is any improvement.
> 

installing dash first would probably be an idea.

I could be wrong, but i don't believe it comes in a stock install.
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