On 01:13 19 Dec 2004, Gene Smith <gds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | I have the same huge source tree on fc2 500Mhz Athlon with IDE drive and | on a old hp vectra 200Mhz with Pentium pro and scsi drive running rh 6.1 | with ext2. A "grep -r" for the same string on the vectra takes about | about a third as long to return results as compared to the somewhat | "faster" Athlon/IDE/ext3 system running fc2. However, building the tree | (and most everything else) takes longer on the vectra by a noticeable | amount. | | Both are running grep from a kde "konsole" in their respective kde | environments. Is it possible that fc2 gives grep and possibly similar | commands a lower priority than rh 6.1 gives? Or is it the scsi drives or | ext2 (on rh 6.1) vs IDE and ext3 I am using on fc2? This is almost certainly because fc2 uses UTF-8 by default. Try this: env LC_ALL=C grep -r ....... versus you original grep -r ....... UTF-8 is more expensive to parse. Try this for more info: env | grep LC man locale Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ NOTWORK: n. A network when it is acting flaky. Origin (?) IBM. - Hackers' Dictionary
