Comment 10 for bug 384017

Loading /etc/bash_completion takes 3 seconds on my Alix-based system (which has an AMD Geode 500 MHz CPU).

Bash completions are loaded in a number of places including via /etc/profile. A non-invasive way to disable this is to add

  BASH_COMPLETION=1

to the start of /etc/profile.

/etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh will only load /etc/bash_completion if BASH_COMPLETION is the empty string.

If you get an error:

  sed: can't read 1: No such file or directory

Then something else is still trying to load /etc/bash_completion. In my base, this was ~/.bashrc.