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Re: [Man-db-devel] Database update profiling
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Colin Watson |
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Re: [Man-db-devel] Database update profiling |
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Fri, 6 Dec 2013 09:58:26 +0000 |
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On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 03:18:29PM -0500, Francis Giraldeau wrote:
> Hi! I did some tracing on apt-get, and one of the slow step of the
> installation of a package on Debian/Ubuntu is the update of man database
> with mandb. There is like 200 tasks and threads spawned with pipes, and
> it appears that it is adding a lot of overhead. For the detail:
The vast bulk of this is well-understood as
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=696503 - it's just one
of those things where I need to carve out a fairly significant solid
block of time to finish it. I have done a non-trivial amount of the
work already.
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Colin Watson address@hidden