Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 15:49 -0800, Allen Parker wrote:
> 
>><angry rant>
>>why don't we put more stuff in mirror://gentoo/ ?? ${FILESDIR} has too
>>much SHIT in it... i appreciate that patches, etc have been placed
>>there... but we REALLY need to find a better place. I don't need my
>>emerge sync's taking 45 minutes on average on a 5Mbit line in
>>france... *45 minutes* ...just PLEASE keep the SHIT out of the portage
>>tree.
> 
> 
> While I completely agree that things need to be taken out of
> ${FILESDIR}, I have a question for you.  Could you give the specs of
> your machine?  I have several machines and even on my oldest machine
> with an ATA33 drive and 128MB of RAM, it takes nowhere near 45 minutes
> to rsync the tree.  Are you using your geographic rsync mirror?  Do you
> have any other I/O bound processes running at the same time?  I'm not
> trying to do anything other than point out that your times seem awfully
> long in my experience and there is a distinct possibility that something
> else is causing the slowdown to such extremes on your system.
> 
I also have an old box (P100 w/ 128MB of RAM, 2 ATA33 disks at ~6MB/sec, udma 
not available) and it takes ~45 minutes to run emerge --sync. Bandwidth is not 
the bottleneck because its mirror is sitting next to it. The bottleneck is the 
sheer number of files to check.

FYI: /usr/portage :
16276 - directories
83779 - files including
         L_ 24820 files under /files/
         L_ 19118 files under /metadata/cache/

16314 - Digest
16284 - .ebuild
  7816 - Manifest
  7812 - ChangeLog
  6726 - metadata.xml
  5100 - .patch / .diff
   223 - Archive (gz/bz2/tar/...)
    89 - make.defaults
    78 - virtuals
    67 - parent
    61 - use.mask
    49 - use.defaults
  4042 - Uncategorized



My 2/100 of your currency,
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