On 10/11/05, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
Ooh....VERY scary. Not where I want to go for a problem like this. I'll wait for the developers to make that sort of thing part of the baseline setup. I couldn't administer it if it broke. Thanks for the info though. cheers, Mark -- [email protected] mailing list
