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rainbowdashc

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Registered: 2013-09-30

Posts: 70

[SOLVED] Long man-db.service startup time?

With the latest update of man-db in [testing], there seems to be a new systemd service (file); when I checked the systemd startup time, it seemed awfully long - more than 17 seconds(!); why so?

systemd-analyze blame | grep man-db
17.366s man-db.service

Last edited by rainbowdashc (2014-04-14 16:02:28)

WonderWoofy

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From: Los Gatos, CA

Registered: 2012-05-19

Posts: 8,414

Re: [SOLVED] Long man-db.service startup time?

It is triggered by a systemd.timer.  These have been put in use in place of anacron.  So if your comptuer was due for this to be run while the machine was off, it does it upon restart/wake/whatever.  This is not something that will happen frequently.

Check out the timer unit to see how frequently it runs.  It is really no different than the time intervals that were in place before with anacron.

rainbowdashc

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Registered: 2013-09-30

Posts: 70

Re: [SOLVED] Long man-db.service startup time?

Edit: restarted and back to normal.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED] Long man-db.service startup time?

systemd-analyze blame is not just about starting your system - it collect info about what has been run since you're rebooted. If you run it right after boot, it shouws info about startup, but then it adds other info, like man-db.service etc.