Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > "Margarita Manterola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> During some tests I've performed, I've found that making the init >> scripts run with dash as default shell instead of bash makes the boot >> time a 10% faster (6 seconds in a 60 second boot). >> >> To make this speed up available to everyone, we have 2 main choices: >> >> 1. Make /bin/sh point to /bin/dash > > That would mean having 2 shells since some scripts need bash. What a > waste on small systems.
Not really a big waste: benjo (sid)[8]:~% apt-cache show bash | grep Installed-Size Installed-Size: 1728 benjo (sid)[9]:~% apt-cache show libncurses5 | grep Installed-Size Installed-Size: 508 benjo (sid)[10]:~% apt-cache show dash | grep Installed-Size Installed-Size: 164 Making dash Essential would only add 7.3% to the disk space already taken up by bash and ncurses. (Granted, libncurses5 is required by a few other Essential things anyway -- specifically: util-linux, ncurses-bin, and ncurses-base -- so the figure goes to 9.4% comparing dash only to bash.) This shows another reason in favor of eventually having dash be Essential instead of bash: a savings of 1.7 MB disk space on a minimal Debian system. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
