Debian bug report logs - #1670 , boring messages ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#1670: start-stop-daemon is too slow Reply-To: Marek Michalkiewicz , debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-From: Marek Michalkiewicz Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 15:03:09 GMT Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk X-Debian-PR-Package: dpkg X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 15:03:09 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 15:03:04 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0t3lbk-000DYZC; Fri, 13 Oct 95 08:01 PDT Received: from i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl by pixar.com with SMTP id AA06257 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Fri, 13 Oct 1995 08:00:46 -0700 Received: (from marekm@localhost) by i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl (8.6.12/8.6.9) id QAA02005 for debian-bugs@pixar.com; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 16:01:02 +0100 From: Marek Michalkiewicz Message-Id: <199510131501.QAA02005@i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl> To: debian-bugs@pixar.com Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 16:01:00 +0100 (MET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 454 Package: dpkg Version: 1.0.0-0 Since start-stop-daemon is run many times during system startup, I think it is important to make it faster and less memory-hungry (it causes quite a lot of swapping on my home box with 4MB RAM). It would be very nice to have a C version of start-stop-daemon. I understand, we don't have much time left right now, but maybe at least for Release 7... Yeah, I know, Perl is great, but compiled C is small and fast! Marek ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: Marek Michalkiewicz Subject: Bug#1670: Acknowledgement (was: start-stop-daemon is too slow) In-Reply-To: <199510131501.QAA02005@i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl> References: <199510131501.QAA02005@i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl> Thank you for the problem report you have sent regarding Debian GNU/Linux. This is an automatically generated reply, to let you know your message has been received. It is being forwarded to the developers' mailing list for their attention; they will reply in due course. 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Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#1670: start-stop-daemon is too slow Reply-To: Ian Jackson , debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-From: Ian Jackson Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 19:48:02 GMT Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk X-Debian-PR-Package: dpkg X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 19:48:02 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 19:47:50 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0t3q3v-000Di2C; Fri, 13 Oct 95 12:46 PDT Received: from bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA27052 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Fri, 13 Oct 1995 12:46:07 -0700 Received: by bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk (Smail-3.1.29.0 #36) id m0t3plf-000C04C; Fri, 13 Oct 95 20:27 BST Received: by chiark id (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.33); Fri, 13 Oct 95 20:25 BST Message-Id: Date: Fri, 13 Oct 95 20:25 BST From: Ian Jackson To: debian-bugs@pixar.com Marek Michalkiewicz writes ("Bug#1670: start-stop-daemon is too slow"): > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.0.0-0 > > Since start-stop-daemon is run many times during system startup, I think > it is important to make it faster and less memory-hungry (it causes quite > a lot of swapping on my home box with 4MB RAM). It would be very nice to > have a C version of start-stop-daemon. I understand, we don't have much > time left right now, but maybe at least for Release 7... > > Yeah, I know, Perl is great, but compiled C is small and fast! The speed advantage is why I converted dpkg proper from Perl to C. However, C is much slower to write than Perl (or other interpreted scripting languages). If I was going to rewrite any of the dpkg scripts it would be update-rc.d, which is really unacceptably slow at the moment. I shall put this item on the wishlist, but don't expect any movement this century. On the other hand, if you were volunteering to write good, clean C code with all the system calls error-checked and which passes the GCC flags I'm using for dpkg (-Wall -Wno-implicit -Wwrite-strings -Wpointer-arith -Wimplicit -Wnested-externs -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes) then I'd be happy to include it. I would say, though, that if you have that much time on your hands I'd rather you spent it writing a manpage for dpkg. Ian. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: Ian Jackson Subject: Bug#1670: Info received (was Bug#1670: start-stop-daemon is too slow) In-Reply-To: References: Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this problem report. It has been forwarded to the developers to accompany the original report. If you wish to continue to submit further information on your problem, please do the same thing again: send it to debian-bugs@pixar.com, ensuring that the Subject line starts with "Bug#1670" or "Re: Bug#1670" so that we can identify it as relating to the same problem. Please do not reply to the address at the top of this message, unless you wish to report a problem with the bug-tracking system. 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