Fwd: Slow Man
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Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 22:40:06 -0500
From: Brian Victor <bhv1@psu.edu>
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To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
Subject: Slow Man
My "man" command takes an inordinately long time to run:
%time man foo
No manual entry for foo
man foo 0.01s user 0.02s system 0% cpu 21.026 total
strace shows the process pausing for almost a full second at each
_newselect() call (the below occurs 21 times for a nonexistent man page):
open("/var/cache/man/oldlocal/index.bt", O_RDONLY) = 3
fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
read(3, "", 512) = 0
close(3) = 0
_newselect(0, 0, 0, 0, 0x7ffff488) = 0
Any ideas about what might be happening? I have the following installed:
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii man-db 2.3.20-18 The on-line manual pager
ii manpages 1.39-1.1 Man pages about using a Linux system.
ii manpages-dev 1.29-2 Linux-development man pages.
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