Re: 'man' too slow
[sorry, I'm not on the list, checked the reply from the archives]
> On Wed, 28 May 2003 12:23:23 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> >On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 04:20:32PM +0530, Amit Shah wrote:
> > It takes quite a long while on my system to open man pages... I did an
> > strace on man. The output of strace is pasted below. Notice the
> > Timeouts in selects.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> This is bug #137908 (I thought it sounded familiar, but it took a little
> while to find it in my mail archives), and was worked around in man-db
> 2.4.0-1 after the woody release.
>
> You can work around it yourself without upgrading: run 'find
> /var/cache/man -name index.bt | xargs ls -l' and delete any that are 0
> bytes long. Also, make sure that you're not running low on disk space in
> /var.
Thanks, Colin. it worked... 3 files were listed, and all three were 0-sized.
Amit.
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