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Re[2]: makewhatis
Ira Abramov <ira@scso.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Evgeny Stambulchik wrote:
>
> > > 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 16MBsmoothly. 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.
>
> Shell script! standard Picasso thing.
> running it again as root now... silly me! I should have guessed it would
> not write the DB when not running as root...
>
>
> uptime
> 2:16am up 3 days, 11:19, 2 users, load average: 2.65, 1.77, 0.90
>
> not MUCH better...
Shell script?! Of course, it would make a load of 2-3, as any shell script
dealing with hundreds of files on per one basis. Although, I don't understand
what does it use such amounts of RAM for. I can send you perl version, if you
want.
Evgeny
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