Re: Slow Man

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 10:40:06PM -0500, Brian Victor wrote:
> 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):

This looks like it might be #137908. I'd appreciate help on this - it
seems to be powerpc-specific.

-- 
Colin Watson (man-db maintainer)              [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]


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