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Re: makewhatis
Ira Abramov <ira@scso.com> wrote:
>
> I have a P133 and 32 megs of RAM, and makewhatis takes longer than a
> kernel compile!
>
> top:
> PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
> 20002 ira 9 0 29820 24784 24688 S 0 3.2 79.8 1:38 makewhatis
>
>
> 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?
It's not. I run makewhatis on boxes with 16MB smoothly. Though, I do remember
someone mentioned it before. If I'm right, that was a binary version of
makewhatis. On my systems, makewhatis is a perl script. If yours is the perl
script also, it should be possible to trace the problem down in the debugging
mode.
Evgeny
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