Bug#763695: console-setup: even worse than assumed

[Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de>]

Hallo,
* Samuel Thibault [Tue, Aug 25 2015, 08:54:35PM]:
> Just so that people reading the log don't take it too exagerated:

> Eduard Bloch, le Tue 25 Aug 2015 20:24:22 +0200, a écrit :
> > I checked again... about 20% of the time is spent in two calls of pidof
> 
> We're here talking about ~15ms each.

I don't. It's ~270ms each (I added another log with timestamps).

It might be true for a shiny Core-i7 system. But a low-end laptop like
the mentioned one is a different league. OTOH it's just one year old and
manages to boot in ~1min. Wasting 5-10% of the boot time just for
keyboard/console setup is ridiculous.

> > And about 70% is spent by loadkeys executing the mentioned storm of ioctls.
> 
> And about 70ms.

Or ~1.8s on the mentioned device.

Even on my not-so-lame desktop (Phenom II 3.2ghz) setupcon needs
almost 1.7s. That is WAY too much, IMHO.

Regards,
Eduard.