STRIP=yes on iana-etc-2.30

[wwh04660 at ucmo.edu]

On Aug 6, 2008, at 4:19 AM, Gilles Espinasse wrote:

> 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

Yeah, find, great there Mr. Savour. The next time you come and save us  
from a death, will you let us know. Goodbye!