Re: /etc/init.d/network is too simple?
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> On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 11:21:57PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> > {morpheus@mania:/home/morpheus}ls -l `which bash ash zsh`
> > - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 87788 Sep 7 1998 /bin/ash
> > - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 426980 Oct 19 19:57 /bin/bash
> > - -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 367708 Jan 22 11:02
> > /usr/bin/zsh{morpheus@mania:/home/morpheus}ps ux
> > USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
> > morpheus 379 0.0 5.2 1580 992 p2 S N 20:30 0:00 zsh
> > morpheus 451 3.0 5.4 1760 1028 p5 S N 22:13 0:00 bash
> > morpheus 452 0.8 1.7 816 328 p6 S N 22:13 0:00 ash
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> Big deal. Honestly, I don't see that the saving is even worth a discussion.
> RAM is cheap, swap space even cheaper.
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RAM is cheap if you have money. Some people dont. Others use laptops where
RAM is expensive and we are all trying to eek out more battery life.
Gobs of scripts run at startup and elsewhere, many do not need bash's bloat.
Yes, on slower machines the difference is quite obvious, both in speed and mem.
Remember your friends who use 486's and lower. Remember your friends on old
Suns and m68k boxen. Not everyone has the luxury of throwing 64mb at a machine
and besides, as computer scientists, engineers, and hobbyists, should we not
strive for doing the right thing and not the "throw money and waste" solution.
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