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Re: makewhatis
On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Ira Abramov wrote:
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> I have a P133 and 32 megs of RAM, and makewhatis takes longer than a
> kernel compile!
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> not to mention my uptime went up to 2.8! it greps, gawks, slices and dices
> and leaves my server with no room to breath! is this natural?
I have asked a very same question on this list a couple of months ago and
was told by someone (cant remember who) that it was the fault of a bug in
bash itself which is menifested in the makewhatis Picasso script.
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