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Package: man-db
Version: 2.9.4-2
Severity: wishlist
Dear Colin,
in 2011 man-db was declared
slow.https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=696503
I can confirm that even in 2024 running a vanilla VM of the poorest
level (E2 micro) on
google cloud it still is. Like badly slow. I can confirm that
downloading the entire current debian iso on terrible indonesian wifi
with copper backend takes less than Processing triggers for man-db
(2.9.4-2) ... Is there anything to be done?
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Source: man-db
Source-Version: 2.10.0-1
On Thu, Aug 29, 2024 at 04:04:09PM +0800, Fabian Thobe wrote:
> in 2011 man-db was declared slow.
> [1]https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=696503
>
> I can confirm that even in 2024 running a vanilla VM of the poorest level
> (E2 micro) on
> google cloud it still is. Like badly slow. I can confirm that downloading
> the entire current debian iso on terrible indonesian wifi with copper backend
> takes less than Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.4-2) ... Is there
> anything to be done?
You're using the last-but-one Debian stable release (11/bullseye) there.
Try the current stable release (12/bookworm) instead. Here's the
release note from man-db 2.10.0:
* Significantly improve `mandb(8)` and `man -K` performance in the common
case where pages are of moderate size and compressed using `zlib`: `mandb
-c` goes from 344 seconds to 10 seconds on a test system.
The changes were too large and invasive to issue as a normal update to
Debian 11 (see https://gitlab.com/man-db/man-db/-/merge_requests/2), but
if you aren't in a position to upgrade from Debian 11 to 12, you can
enable bullseye-backports and install man-db 2.10.1-1~bpo11+1.
Thanks,
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Colin Watson (he/him) [[email protected]]
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