Slow startup?

[Jo Vermeulen]

Op 14-apr-05 om 20:51 heeft Simon Ekstrand het volgende geschreven:

> Jo Vermeulen <jo at lumumba.luc.ac.be> writes:
>> Eliminating these calls (socket.getfqdn), but still including all the
>> extra printing I did cuts off 2 whole seconds!
>>
>> $ bzr
>> real    0m0.557s
>> user    0m0.310s
>> sys     0m0.120s
>
> Can you manually resolve (with 'host' or similar) the output of
> 'python -c "import socket; print socket.gethostname()"' ?
> Is the time it takes similar to the two seconds noted above?

Sorry, I don't quite understand what you want me to do.

> socket.getfqdn makes a gethostbyaddr call which is probably what's 
> taking
> time. It should however be very fast if your own hostname is included 
> in
> /etc/hosts, which is generally the case.

Aha :-) I added my hostname to the /etc/hosts file (which Mac OS X 
doesn't do by default), and this is the outcome:

$ time bzr
usage: bzr COMMAND
   try "bzr help"

real    0m0.447s
user    0m0.280s
sys     0m0.110s

And the test scripts:

$ time python hostname.py
real    0m0.110s
user    0m0.050s
sys     0m0.030s

$ time python fqdn.py
real    0m0.105s
user    0m0.040s
sys     0m0.040s


So it's fixed indeed! Thanks! Would be nice if Python looked in the 
config file Apple stores the hostname too though, because by default 
it's not in /etc/hosts. Don't know where it actually is stored :-)

Kind regards,

-- 
Jo Vermeulen <jo at lumumba.luc.ac.be>
http://lumumba.luc.ac.be/jo/