From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 10 06:53:12 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id GAA13263 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 10 Jan 1995 06:53:12 -0800 Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA13249 for ; Tue, 10 Jan 1995 06:53:03 -0800 Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id PAA19983; Tue, 10 Jan 1995 15:55:46 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199501101455.PAA19983@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: Filesystem(?) preformance - 1.x and 2.0 To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 15:55:46 +0100 (MET) Cc: lsys@np.ac.sg, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199501101257.EAA00220@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Jan 10, 95 04:57:05 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1078 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > writes are slightly slower. The specific problem regarding performance of > 'man' is likely caused by differences in the way that the manual pages are > stored. 2.0 stores the manual pages in gzip compressed nroff format to save > space, while 1.x installed the manual pages in uncompressed 'cat' format. > Also, the cat directories aren't part of the 2.0 distribution, so the system > must uncompress and format the manual page every time 'man' is used on it. > If you create 'cat' directories, the system will keep the uncompressed 'cat' > format page around for future lookup. is there any easy way to have compressed 'cat' pages instead ? uncompressing files is very fast, and 'cat' pages should compress very well. Luigi ==================================================================== Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 ====================================================================