On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Pierre Schmitz<pie...@archlinux.de> wrote: > On Thursday 18 June 2009 09:36:53 Thomas Bächler wrote: >> man-db runs a cronjob daily. Every time this cronjob runs, it causes >> very high system load for about 5 minutes (this is longer than >> updatedb). Does it really have to run daily? If so, is it really normal >> that it causes such high load? I would hope not. Can this please be >> fixed, it is very annoying. > > You can remove the cronjob; its of no use imho.
According to the developer of man-db, the cronjob is only neccesary for whatis and apropos. http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9130 I removed it, it just about kills my netbook...
