On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 05:35:33AM +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote: > AFAIK, busybox still forks whereever a regular POSIX shell forks, so if the > amount of forks is the problem, AFAICT busybox will resolve absolutely nothing. Fork should be pretty cheap - although that depends how much memory is unshared by each of the resulting tasks. A smaller cleaner shell such as rc (which was designed for this job in plan 9) or ash might well perform better. I'm dubious it would be a big difference but someone can bench it. Alan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
