Re: 6.1.4 running on a Performa 450 / LCIII

On 19 May 2014 02:01, Bjarne Bäckström <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for replying!
>
> 18 maj 2014 kl. 21:49 skrev David Brownlee <[email protected]>:
>
> 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?
>
>
>    That’s what I thought too. The size doesn’t seem to have changed since
> May 16, and makemandb has run at least 10 times during that time. The size
> is close to 19 MB:
>
>    -rw-r--r--   1 root     wheel    18826240 May 16 17:41 man.db
>
> That seems about the right size.

After taking a quick look at makemandb it will work through that sqlite db
file and stat(2) every manpage on the system to see if they need updated.

I think small machines should not be running makemandb by default - see
other email to port-mac68k@ for that thread :)

> When its running is your machine paging? - run 'vmstat 5' and se if the
> 'po' column has consistent non zero numbers.
>
>    There are no pageouts (’vmstat’ is showing a row of zeros) before
> 'Building temporary file cache’ has finished, and then, according to ’top’,
> it will page out 6+ MB:
>
> 26 processes: 1 runnable, 23 sleeping, 1 zombie, 1 on CPU
> CPU states: 92.4% user,  0.0% nice,  7.6% system,  0.0% interrupt,  0.0%
> idle
> Memory: 13M Act, 5284K Inact, 5032K Wired, 5004K Exec, 9040K File, 1652K
> Free
> Swap: 39M Total, 6252K Used, 33M Free
>
>   PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE   RES STATE      TIME   WCPU    CPU
> COMMAND
>   134 root               29    0        4132K 2304K RUN       3:08
>  94.29%   94.29% makemandb
>   473 bjarne           43    0        3364K 1144K CPU        1:40
>  0.00%     0.00% top
>       0 root             126    0              0K   32M pgdaemon   1:09
>  0.00%      0.00% [system]
>
> When its finished running you might want to try as root running 'makemandb
> -v' and see if it completes
>
>  Now, that seems to be the place where all the fun is happening:
>
> makemandb -v
> Building temporary file cache
> Performing index update
> Parsing: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/rman.1
> makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/X11R6/man/man1/rman.1
> Parsing: /usr/X11R6/man/man3/Xv.3
> makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/X11R6/man/man3/Xv.3
> Parsing: /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XvPutVideo.3
> makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XvPutVideo.3
> Parsing: /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XvSelectVideoNotify.3
> makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XvSelectVideoNotify.3
> Parsing: /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XvFreeAdaptorInfo.3
> makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XvFreeAdaptorInfo.3
> Parsing: /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XvFreeEncodingInfo.3
> makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XvFreeEncodingInfo.3
> Parsing: /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XvGetPortAttribute.3
> makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XvGetPortAttribute.3
> Parsing: /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XvGetStill.3
> makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XvGetStill.3
> Parsing: /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XvGetVideo.3
> makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XvGetVideo.3
> Parsing: /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XvGrabPort.3
> makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XvGrabPort.3
> Parsing: /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XvPortNotify.3
> makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XvPortNotify.3
> Parsing: /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XvPutStill.3
> makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XvPutStill.3
> Parsing: /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XvQueryAdaptors.3
> makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XvQueryAdaptors.3
> Parsing: /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XvQueryBestSize.3
> makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XvQueryBestSize.3
> Parsing: /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XvQueryEncodings.3
> makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XvQueryEncodings.3
> Parsing: /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XvQueryExtension.3
> makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XvQueryExtension.3
> Parsing: /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XvSelectPortNotify.3
> makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XvSelectPortNotify.3
> Parsing: /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XvSetPortAttribute.3
> makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XvSetPortAttribute.3
> Parsing: /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XvStopVideo.3
> makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XvStopVideo.3
> Parsing: /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XvUngrabPort.3
> makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XvUngrabPort.3
> Parsing: /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XvVideoNotify.3
> makemandb: Error in indexing /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XvVideoNotify.3
> Total Number of new or updated pages encountered = 21
> Total number of (hard or symbolic) links found = 3
> 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
>
>    Alas, I wouldn’t know what to look for in those files…
>

A netbsd-6 box should have X11R7 - is this an upgrade and do you have a set
of X files in both X11R6 and X11R7?

>
>    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?
>
> Thanks again!
>

Hoping someone speaks up on the colo(u)r X server... anyone? Beuller? :)