On Friday 01 September 2006 17:21, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Speaking of which, you probably should see the shell used in the > > scripts from the sys-apps/baselayout package. All shell scripts > > use /bin/bash and not /bin/sh. > > > > So linking (d)ash as the default shell doesn't nearly have the impact > > you'd like it to have. > > A 20% reduction in boot time is a reasonable impact IMO.
Any chance that was a fluke? I've done a few reboots with bootchart to confirm this and I don't get any speedup. In fact /bin/sh is never called because the gentoo init scripts explicitly use bash. (sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.4-r7) -- [email protected] mailing list
