On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:51:45AM +0000, Richard Bradley wrote: > Hi, > > Sometimes (not always) when I do a 'portupgrade', it takes _ages_ to "update > the ports index", without actually placing any noticeable load on the system. > > In ports/UPDATING, it says (of make index) "This may take an undesirably long > time.". That would be fine, *if it were doing any work*.
Building the index is disk bound, not CPU bound. If you have slow disks it will take a very long time to build. Fortunately most people don't need to build their own indices, as explained in other emails. Kris
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