I have been compiling some of the ”basic” tools from pkgsrc, and one morning I found that two instances of makemandb were running simultaneously. The first one had apparently not had time to finish before cron kicked up another one. Running makemandb on an otherwise idle LCIII takes about 45 minutes (with only a few new man pages added, and the erratic X11R6 man pages as before): enoch# time -pl makemandb -v Building temporary file cache Performing index update […] Total Number of new or updated pages encountered = 21 Total number of (hard or symbolic) links found = 11 Total number of pages that were successfully indexed/updated = 0 Total number of pages that could not be indexed due to errors = 21 Deleting stale index entries 2667.04 real 2324.48 user 177.27 sys 0 maximum resident set size 0 average shared memory size 0 average unshared data size 0 average unshared stack size 2327 page reclaims 211 page faults 0 swaps 229 block input operations 7 block output operations 0 messages sent 0 messages received 0 signals received -7827 voluntary context switches 20836 involuntary context switches By the way, what does the negative number of ’voluntary context switches’ mean? Is it simply an overflow? — Regards, /Bjarne. |