[linux-fai] why does "yes" take so much cpu time?

[Thomas Gebhardt]

Hi,

> when snooping around at a client installation I found that
> during the software installation most of the time "apt-get"
> and "yes" took about 66% / 33% of the cpu time:

I found that making yes nice significantely reduces its cpu time
excess and the installation time (in my environment:

(rcS_fai):

nice yes 'n' | install_packages >> /tmp/software.log 2>&1
^^^^ 
Kind regards, Thomas