Re: [gentoo-dev] Defining TZ in the base system profile?

2023-02-14 Thread Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier
[2023-01-18 20:48:56-0500] Joshua Kinard: So is adding a default definition of TZ to our base system /etc/profile something we want to look at? I haven't tried any other methods of benchmarking to see if not making those additional syscalls is just placebo or if there are actual impacts.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defining TZ in the base system profile?

2023-01-19 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Wed, 2023-01-18 at 20:48 -0500, Joshua Kinard wrote: > > So is adding a default definition of TZ to our base system > /etc/profile something we want to look at? I > haven't tried any other methods of benchmarking to see if not making > those additional syscalls is just placebo > or if there

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defining TZ in the base system profile?

2023-01-19 Thread Arsen Arsenović
Michał Górny writes: > On Wed, 2023-01-18 at 20:48 -0500, Joshua Kinard wrote: >> So this article[1] from 2017 popped up again on the tech radar via >> hackernews[2] and a few other sites[3]. It >> annotates how if the envvar TZ is undefined on a Linux system, it causes >> glibc to generate

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defining TZ in the base system profile?

2023-01-18 Thread Ionen Wolkens
On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 08:48:56PM -0500, Joshua Kinard wrote: > > So this article[1] from 2017 popped up again on the tech radar via > hackernews[2] and a few other sites[3]. It > annotates how if the envvar TZ is undefined on a Linux system, it causes > glibc to generate a number of >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defining TZ in the base system profile?

2023-01-18 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 2023-01-18 at 20:48 -0500, Joshua Kinard wrote: > So this article[1] from 2017 popped up again on the tech radar via > hackernews[2] and a few other sites[3]. It > annotates how if the envvar TZ is undefined on a Linux system, it causes > glibc to generate a number of > additional

[gentoo-dev] Defining TZ in the base system profile?

2023-01-18 Thread Joshua Kinard
So this article[1] from 2017 popped up again on the tech radar via hackernews[2] and a few other sites[3]. It annotates how if the envvar TZ is undefined on a Linux system, it causes glibc to generate a number of additional syscalls, mainly stat-related calls (in my tests, newfstatat()). If