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? Is there anyway to flush the
cache files and start again with a clean emerge --sync?
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.
You might also consider putting /usr/portage on it's own filesystem.
That would keep the disk accessed confined to a small portion of the
disk. The size should be 1-3G depending upon whether you keep distfiles
and packages on the same filesystem or not.
-Richard
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