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Re: makewhatis



On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Ira Abramov wrote:

> 
> 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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