Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 22:38:02 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck <crtb@capecod.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Why is man so slow? Message-ID: <199711070338.WAA02551@capecod.net>
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In FreeBSD-2.0.5 and now 2.2.2R, I find the man command to be
ridiculously slow. If I time "zcat /usr/share/man/man1/tar.1.gz"
it takes less than 1 sec. wall clock time. But "man tar" takes a
full 20 seconds before anything appears.
And /usr/share/man/man1/tar.1.gz is the only file in $MANPATH with
a name matching "tar.*". It's only 4894 bytes long!
Chuck Bacon -- crtb@capecod.net
ABHOR SECRECY -- DEFEND PRIVACY
PS: I think Tom Christiansen once wrote a man perl script.
Any suggestions?
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