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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge world taking excessive CPU/real time
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:36:44
Message-Id: 4AEC91D5.5010804@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] emerge world taking excessive CPU/real time by Robert Bradbury
1 Robert Bradbury wrote:
2 > I commonly run:
3 > emerge --pretend --update --verbose --deep --newuse world
4 > at least once every day to provide a list of recently updated packages
5 > that I need to re-emerge.
6 >
7 > I've noticed recently (in the last 1-2 weeks) that it seems to be taking
8 > a very long time. The one I've got running now has on the order of 8+
9 > CPU minutes which seems very long. I think this used to take <2 minutes.
10
11 Maybe it's backtracking for some reason. If that's the case, should
12 see some related messages about backtracking. Please file a bug at
13 http://bugs.gentoo.org and include --pretend --debug output for the
14 long-running dependency calculation.
15
16 > I've also noticed some chatter on the gentoo-dev list about including
17 > package dates in the portage database.
18 >
19 > Has anyone else encountered this problem or have any ideas about the
20 > possible cause? Could it be python version related?
21
22 I haven't seen any other reports like this. I doubt that the python
23 version is related.
24
25 > Versions are: portage-2.1.7.1 and Python 2.6.3 (r263:75183, Oct 3 2009,
26 > 02:52:55).
27 >
28 > Thanks,
29 > Robert
30 >
31 >
32
33
34 --
35 Thanks,
36 Zac

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Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge world taking excessive CPU/real time Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>