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Re: ON LINKS AND THINGS



|> First thing I did after installing debian was to run makewhatis on
|> /usr/man and /usr/X386/man, *simultaneously* and in the background.
|> Both jobs finished without incident. [...]  I don't think I ever
|> actually started swapping.  This is debian 0.90, by the way.  Perhaps
|> something changed in 0.91?
|
|Well, my DEBIAN .91 makewhatis does not work either, and I get a very
|specific error:
|
|sed: Couldn't re-allocate memory
|
|I only have 8 megs RAM and a 16 meg swap.
|
|Jim

I installed DEBIAN 0.91 and ran makewhatis.  It finished without
incident.  Everything looks fine.  My machine only has 4 megs RAM and
16 megs swap.  There is some definate wierdness going on.

Clark


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