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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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