[tech] slowness of 'man' on mussel
James Devenish
devenish at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Wed Feb 28 07:59:25 WST 2001
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 07:52:40AM +0800, James Devenish wrote:
> Does anyone else find that 'man' takes an exceptionally long time to
> find man pages on mussel? Is that something to do with the index
> format? Compressed files? Invalid entries? Or just that there are very
> many man pages and I'm wanting the ones from the *end* of the list? ;)
BTW. I know it's generating the formatted pages on-the-fly because they
haven't been pregenerated but still, it seems slow at /something/, I'm
not sure exactly which part of the process.
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