Bug 507288

Summary:	makewhatis consuming a lot of CPU
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Martin Osvald 🛹 <mosvald>
Component:	man	Assignee:	Ivana Varekova <varekova>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	qe-baseos-daemons
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Priority:	low
Version:	5.2	CC:	cww, ovasik, rvokal, tao
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Description Martin Osvald 🛹 2009-06-22 07:55:46 UTC

Description of problem:
High CPU usage on Rouzic cards has been observed twice on labs.
It seems to be due to  makewhatis which consumes a lot of CPU.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
man-1.6d-1.1-x86_64

How reproducible:
N/A

Steps to Reproduce:
try to run it
  
Actual results:
consumes a lot of CPU

Expected results:
should behave more reliably

Additional info:
See related bugzilla bug #496520

Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2009-11-06 18:56:18 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion, but this component is not scheduled to be updated in
the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. If you would like
this request to be reviewed for the next minor release, ask your
support representative to set the next rhel-x.y flag to "?".

Comment 6 RHEL Program Management 2011-02-16 12:14:54 UTC

Development Management has reviewed and declined this request.  You may appeal
this decision by reopening this request.