I had some code in place to update the MySQL man page DB 'on the fly' but this database has grown so big over time (now over 7 GB, 7.1 GB to be exact) that the update query was causing the man page rendering to slow down to a crawl.

So, I just disabled updating the table 'on the fly' so the pages will load fast again.

It was not the number of rows causing the problem but something else:

Code:

mysql> select count(*) from `neo_man_page_entry`;
+----------+
| count(*) |
+----------+
|   347938 |
+----------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

Which I think is related to indexing in that table and the update query.

So, I'll revisit and fix this at a later time.

For now, I man pages are loading fast again.