On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 05:35:33AM +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
AFAIK, busybox still forks whereever a regular POSIX shell forks, so
if the
amount of forks is the problem, AFAICT busybox will resolve absolutely nothing.
Fork should be pretty cheap - although that depends how much memory is unshared
by each of the resulting tasks. A smaller cleaner shell such as rc (which was
designed for this job in plan 9) or ash might well perform better. I'm dubious
it would be a big difference but someone can bench it.
Alan