Re: Running makemandb on every boot

Am 19.05.2014 um 01:31 schrieb David Brownlee <[email protected]>:

> Currently the system runs 'makemandb -Q' in the background on every boot. This updates the apropos database (for 'man -k').
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> On an system with an existing man database this will stat(2) every manpage and update /var/db/man.db (an around 18MB sqlite database on a new amd64 system, maybe around 40MB on the same system with a reasonable selection of packages)
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> On a modern system rich in disk, memory and CPU this is unnoticeable. On a slower system (mac68k, vax, embedded 486), this renders the system effectively unusable for some time.
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> Given that makemandb is run nightly and weekly by cron anyway, it would probably be best for those systems to not have makemandb run on boot.
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> My first thought would be to allow setting it in sysinst, with a per port - default on for i386, amd64, modern (arm, powerpc, mips), off for others.
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> What do people think?
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What say does make sense to me.  I run several small machines and I also suffer from this effect.  Maybe the behaviour would better be defined in /etc/rc.conf (with sensible per-port default values)?

- mb