Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!uunet!mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!isis!rwelch From: rwelch@isis.cs.du.edu (Randy S. Welch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: Overhead of raw-mode shells (Bash, Zsh, Ksh etc) Message-ID: Date: 7 May 91 04:30:05 GMT References: <1991May6.053630.569@cs.uow.edu.au> Sender: usenet@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (netnews admin account) Organization: Public Access Unix - Univ. of Denver, Math Dept. Lines: 20 In-Reply-To: steve@cs.uow.edu.au's message of 6 May 91 05:36:30 GMT In article <1991May6.053630.569@cs.uow.edu.au> steve@cs.uow.edu.au (Stephen Cliffe) writes: Does anyone have any feeling for the overhead placed on a machine by running the more modern shells that support command line editing. We would like to make either bash or zsh available to our students and are a little concerned by the possible extra system overhead this could impose due to the use of raw-mode and therfore conext switches etc. The biggest problem with bash is it's size, its alot bigger than sh :-) There are 3 of us at work who use bash and another using a real old ksh, with no undue effects on our old '020 box. -randy -- Randy Welch Mail to : ...!ncar!scicom!bldr!randy or rwelch@du.edu Boulder, CO rwelch@nyx.cs.du.edu or (303) 442-6717 "Unfortunately, life contains an unavoidable element of unpredictability" -David Lynch "The Angriest Dog in the World"