On Monday 31 July 2006 21:35, Łukasz Mierzwa wrote: > I gues that extens are much harder to reuse then normal inodes so when You > have something as big as portage tree filled with nano files wich are > being modified all the time then You just can't keep performance all the > time. You can always tar, rm -fr /usr/portage, untar and You will probably > speed things up a lot.
I agree here. On my home system this gave me a visible improvement in the sync process. I blew up my portage tree and I rebuilt it, and it gave me around ~10% improvement - this was around 6 months ago. I am not all that greedy, so i didn't do this do this than once :-) Sarath
