On 1/12/2010, at 12:27pm, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 29 November 2010 10:58:10 I wrote: > >> ... it'll be tomorrow before I have any emerging to do ... > > Well, what strange results. Desktop responsiveness is drastically > improved. On the other hand: > > $ time (sudo emerge --sync) > [...] > real 10m3.185s > user 0m6.331s > sys 0m0.575s > > This is with a Gentoo rsync server on the same LAN segment. A P4 box on > the same segment recorded about 65s for the same command - nearly 10 > times as fast. > > On this box, calculating dependencies took about another 10 minutes, > though I couldn't time it accurately because it's only part of a > process.
This was using CK sources? I'm ready to try them later this evening. Stroller.

