At least on iana-etc-2.30, there is a STRIP option that remove all comments.
Time to resolve protocol name lineary depend of /etc/services file size See http://www.diy-linux.org/pipermail/diy-linux-dev/2006-January/000719.html or http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/current/2004-07/0465.html Using STRIP=yes remove comments, is a big gain in size and will speed up protocol name resolution. without STRIP=yes ls -l build/etc/{services,protocols} -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25075 Aug 5 23:52 build/etc/protocols -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 768737 Aug 5 23:52 build/etc/services with STRIP=yes ls -l build/etc/{services,protocols} -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2078 Aug 6 10:52 build/etc/protocols -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 192217 Aug 6 10:52 build/etc/services In the worst case ( protocol unknow or near the end of the services file), this should divide the time to resolve protocol name by 4. Gilles -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
