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Re: [Man-db-devel] Database update profiling
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Francis Giraldeau |
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Re: [Man-db-devel] Database update profiling |
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Fri, 06 Dec 2013 08:31:37 -0500 |
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Le 2013-12-06 04:58, Colin Watson a écrit :
> 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:
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> 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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Thanks Colin, that's nice! If there are some patches arround, I could
give them a spin.
Cheers!
Francis