Oden Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi again. > > A while back I was very pleased with the mkinitrd script because it was so > much faster than in Mandrake 7.2, now something has happened to it and > there's suddenly not much difference in execution time. The use of diet libc > speeded up this process a great deal. > > Somewhere in the evolution of mkinitrd it only took a couple of seconds to > make a ramdisk, now it takes at least ten seconds (up to a minute if there's > a softlink to the source...). Why is that?
Because the "find" is now made by shell globbing which is rather slow. I'll have to find a better way to do the "find". > I still have the same hardware. > > Is it all in the sh_find function? It seems to scan through the directories > over and over and yet over again. It makes no sence to me... -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
