[Bug 790043] Re: Bash-completion slows up the start of bash

[Peter Cordes]

bug 1173728 is about programmable completion being loaded by default, or
not.  Further discussion about how and whether it is should go there.
Sorry for the tangent about it in this bug.

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Title:
  Bash-completion slows up the start of bash

Status in bash-completion package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: bash-completion

  I have been noticing that bash has unusually slow start-up times.
  After looking into the problem, I found out this is mostly caused by
  the execution of /etc/bash_completion (calls to this exist in several
  places). Of course, removing them speeds up the start but leaves a
  less functional shell. As a work-around I would like to suggest
  starting up /etc/bash_completion in the background. In this way, bash
  will start quickly, have access only to basic built-in completions for
  the first 2 seconds until /etc/bash_completion finishes executing.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: bash-completion 1:1.3-1ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sun May 29 22:43:51 2011
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8:en
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: bash-completion
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-24 (35 days ago)

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