>>>>> "Denys" == Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> writes:

Hi,

 Denys> I suspected it might be slow. It recompiles every regex on every check.

 Denys> On what hardware did you observed mdev -s being noticeably slow?
 Denys> How sow was it?

It's been a while since I've used it, but it afaik took several
seconds. I just did a quick test again, and it's fairly OK (400MHz ARM9,
uClibc 0.9.32, busybox statically linked):

# time ./mdev -s
real    0m 0.34s
user    0m 0.10s
sys     0m 0.24s

# cp examples/mdev_fat.conf /etc/mdev.conf
# time ./mdev -s
mdev: unknown user/group root:uucp on line 40
mdev: unknown user/group root:uucp on line 40
mdev: unknown user/group root:uucp on line 40
mdev: unknown user/group root:uucp on line 40
mdev: unknown user/group root:uucp on line 40
real    0m 1.34s
user    0m 0.72s
sys     0m 0.42s

So mdev.conf handling is a significant part of it.

--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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