> I just traced starting up a postmaster, and got over 38000
> lines like this:
>
> stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
> st_size=1267, ...}) = 0
>
> I assume it comes from the timezone library, but it seems
> highly inefficient. Anyone know why we might get this?
Without digging into details, I would guess htat comes from the probing
of available timezones to find one that matches the current one. We do a
whole lot of setting/resetting the TZ there - but only during postmaster
startup.
//Magnus
