Re: Slow Man
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 05:16:40AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote:
> 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.
I've tried it on a powerpc now (thanks, Adam Conrad) and couldn't
reproduce the problem there either. In fact, on that machine I don't see
any _newselect() calls at all.
What does 'ls -l /usr/lib/man-db/man' say, and what version of libdb2 do
you have installed?
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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