[chef] Re: Re: Why is knife --help so slow??

[JJ Asghar < >]

I recently ran into this problem myself.  The way I got around it was
upgrading to ruby 2.0.0 via rvm and created a gem set specifically to
chef/knife stuff.  It worked great for me, maybe give that a shot?

Best Regards,
JJ Asghar
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On 10/9/13 3:55 PM, "Noah Kantrowitz" 
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>It has to process every gem on the system looking for knife plugins. If
>you strace it, you'll see a crazy number of stats and similar calls.
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>--Noah
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>On Oct 9, 2013, at 1:53 PM, DV 
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>> Hey all,
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>> I have a bash_completion script that calls "knife --help" to get a list
>>of suggestions. The script works great, but each call costs about 2
>>seconds due to "knife --help" taking this long.
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>> Any ideas why it's so slow? It isn't doing anything, just outputting
>>help info. Should take under a millisecond, right?
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>> $ time knife node --help >/dev/null 2>&1
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>> real    0m0.878s
>> user    0m0.776s
>> sys     0m0.100s
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>> -- 
>> Best regards, Dmitriy V.
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