#include <hallo.h> * Margarita Manterola [Wed, May 24 2006, 11:56:05PM]:
> >What about using depmod -a instead, how much would it cost? AFAICS it > >only needs to walk trough the directories and stat the files without > >reading them. > > This is what's being done currently, as far as I know, and it takes > around 3 seconds in a Pentium 3. It takes longer in a slower machine, > obviously. The problem is not the CPU power. Please try the same with cold VFS cache, eg. during a fresh reboot. Depending on the harddisk quality and FS quality and fragmentation, it can take much more. Eg. the Athlon64 here takes about 5 seconds (with a good harddisk) the first time, and about 0.15 seconds when rerunning that. Eduard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
