Hi hackers, Short: Please take your modules and rename the contained .scr files after the paths they serve: .foo.bar.baz -> foo_bar_baz.scr Long: in Alpha 3, SCR can be lazy. That is, it will not read all the *.scr files to register all the agents at the first opportunity. Instead, it guesses which file an agent is defined in and reads only that file. Only when that fails it does the big sweep. The aim is to reduce startup time, and thanks to Michael Meeks for bringing that topic up. It only works if the files are named accordingly. Most of them are but a major exception is .sysconfig.foo which are currently in cfg_foo.scr . And then all the other ones here and there. (In Alpha3, yast2-core-2.16.39 looks for foo.bar.baz.scr which does not fit the way most scr files are named now. I have just submitted .41 which uses underscores. Also, a warning "Scripting agent sweeping" will be logged when it has to give up and walk the disk.) I tried to measure the actual improvement, but did not get very far(*). To begin with, there are environment variables to restore the old behavior so that we can do any measuring at all: Y2SCRSWEEP=1 sweeps as soon as SCR is called Y2SCRNOSORT=1 does not sort the scr files (normally, when sweeping I try to reduce the penalty by sorting the files according to their inode number, hoping that it will result in sequential disk head movement) (*) I measured it this way, but got no difference :-/ Either this is all useless or I can blame VirtualBox. Repeat several times: echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches; time Y2SCRSWEEP=1 Y2SCRNOSORT=1 yast2 nfs help and then with the new code: echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches; time yast2 nfs help Next I will try on a real machine. Also I could try iogrid, but we don't seem to have in the build service (hint hint...) -- Martin Vidner, YaST developer http://en.opensuse.org/User:Mvidner Kuracke oddeleni v restauraci je jako fekalni oddeleni v bazenu -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org