Re: [gentoo-user] Should emerge --sync be so slow?

2005-10-20 Thread Andrew Kirilenko
Hello! On Thursday 20 October 2005 03:26, Richard Fish wrote: Alex Bennee wrote: As my system has become more lived in I've noticed the time taken to update the cache at the end of an emerge --sync is getting slower and slower. The system will hang around 50% for a long time and thrash the

Re: [gentoo-user] Should emerge --sync be so slow?

2005-10-20 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 18:48 +0400, Andrew Kirilenko wrote: I do have portage on the separate partition, but this caching process is _DAMN_ slow. I remember times when it was really, really fast. WTF? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108412 Regards, Paul -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] Should emerge --sync be so slow?

2005-10-19 Thread Alex Bennee
As my system has become more lived in I've noticed the time taken to update the cache at the end of an emerge --sync is getting slower and slower. The system will hang around 50% for a long time and thrash the crap out of the disks. Is this just usual behaviour for portage? Is there anyway to

Re: [gentoo-user] Should emerge --sync be so slow?

2005-10-19 Thread Richard Fish
Alex Bennee wrote: As my system has become more lived in I've noticed the time taken to update the cache at the end of an emerge --sync is getting slower and slower. The system will hang around 50% for a long time and thrash the crap out of the disks. Is this just usual behaviour for portage?

Re: [gentoo-user] Should emerge --sync be so slow?

2005-10-19 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Richard Fish wrote: Well, you could try this: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb Several people here (including me) are using this without any bad effects. I noticed this broke after the recent Python upgrade - I had to remove the module to run emerge.

Re: [gentoo-user] Should emerge --sync be so slow?

2005-10-19 Thread Dave Nebinger
On Thursday 20 October 2005 01:19 am, A. Khattri wrote: On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Richard Fish wrote: Well, you could try this: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb Several people here (including me) are using this without any bad effects. I noticed this broke after the