Re: 6.1.4 running on a Performa 450 / LCIII

On 18 May 2014 13:37, Bjarne Bäckström <[email protected]> wrote:

>    Good day, is anybody still listening on this channel? I haven’t touched
> NetBSD since early 2010, when I stuffed ’everything' in boxes and moved to
> a new apartment. At that time I had tried vn 5<something> without much
> success. The other day I happened to stumble over the LCIII, and decided to
> see if I could run the latest and greatest of NetBSD on this machine.
>
>    Installing via sysinst over ftp went very smooth (though it took about
> 7 hours to install pkgsrc), and after that the system was up and running in
> no time flat (give or take an hour or three).
>
>    The most annoying thing so far is that makemandb will hog the processor
> for abt 45 minutes every time at startup, making the computer almost
> unusable during that time. Other than that, there doesn’t seem to be any
> problems — not that I have run any heavy smoke tests so far.
>

Once makemandb has completed a run it shouldn't really use any more time
next boot unless your manpages have changed. What size is your
/var/db/man.db?
When its running is your machine paging? - run 'vmstat 5' and se if the
'po' column has consistent non zero numbers.

When its finished running you might want to try as root running 'makemandb
-v' and see if it completes - a sample run on my (non m68k box :) is below:

Building temporary file cache
Performing index update
Parsing: /usr/pkg/man/man1/rename.1
makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/pkg/man/man1/rename.1
Parsing: /usr/pkg/man/man1/joe.1
Total Number of new or updated pages encountered = 3
Total number of (hard or symbolic) links found = 1
Total number of pages that were successfully indexed/updated = 1
Total number of pages that could not be indexed due to errors = 2
Deleting stale index entries

   X forwarding works fine with the ’standard’ installation, though it
> would be nice to have color X. Would the ole, trusted color X server from
> 1.6.2 still run on this system?
>

It would be nice to get the colo(u)r code merged into the current tree -
does anyone have the source to hand?