Re: 'man' too slow

[sorry, I'm not on the list, checked the reply from the archives] > On Wed, 28 May 2003 12:23:23 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > >On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 04:20:32PM +0530, Amit Shah wrote: > > It takes quite a long while on my system to open man pages... I did an > > strace on man. The output of stra

Re: 'man' too slow

On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 04:20:32PM +0530, Amit Shah wrote: > It takes quite a long while on my system to open man pages... I did an > strace on man. The output of strace is pasted below. Notice the > Timeouts in selects. > > Any suggestions? This is bug #137908 (I thought it sounded familiar, but

'man' too slow

Hi, It takes quite a long while on my system to open man pages... I did an strace on man. The output of strace is pasted below. Notice the Timeouts in selects. Any suggestions? execve("/usr/bin/man", ["man", "strtol"], [/* 23 vars */]) = 0 uname({sys="Linux", node="magrathea", ...}) = 0 brk(0)