On Tuesday 11 October 2005 20:07, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > It seems that over the last few months that the 'Updating portage > cache' part of an emerge sync has gotten very, very low on my > machines. Has anything changed that should have caused this? Did I > possibly miss some update step somewhere to make this run faster. > > I'd say that this step is now taking at least 10 minutes - maybe 15 > minutes. Good reason not to update too often! > > I do think the speed at which emerge gets to this point is a bit > faster, and certainly I'd expect it to slow down a bit as the library > grows ever larger. I see no change at all in emerging a package - only > the sync step. > > Thanks in advance for any info. > > Cheers, > Mark
you may find this link very helpfull: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
