Re: [Cooker] mkinitrd-3.1.6-18mdk (what ever happened to it?)
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/
RE: [Cooker] mkinitrd-3.1.6-18mdk (what ever happened to it?)
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. Move find into /bin? It is basic (and useful) enough to be available early. -andrej
Re: [Cooker] mkinitrd-3.1.6-18mdk (what ever happened to it?)
Borsenkow Andrej [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Move find into /bin? It is basic (and useful) enough to be available early. That's an easy way, right :-). It's 50 kbytes. We probably can afford this. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
[Cooker] mkinitrd-3.1.6-18mdk (what ever happened to it?)
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? 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... -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Oden Eriksson, Deserve-IT Networks/HFE Systems, Jokkmokk, Sweden. | Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Cooker) for i586 | Current uptime with kernel 2.4.17-5mdksmp: 1 day 55 minutes | cpu0 @ 799.53 bm, fan 4560 rpm, temp +30°C | cpu1 @ 801.17 bm, fan 4530 rpm, temp +30.5°C
