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> For someone like me using mysql-based cache rather then portage's default |
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> cache, how will that figure? |
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I have a laptop with 256 MB RAM. I can't consider installing a full |
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database system to handle package managment. Maybe SQLlite, but not mysql :( |
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>>There are too many files to consider now in portage. At start, portage |
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>>had just a few hundred of files, and rsync was doing its job quite well. |
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>>Now portage has more than 80 000 files. Rsync has to consider all of |
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>>them, and it's *REALLY* too long + painfull (my laptop is almost |
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>>unusable during rsyncing). Sound like a "select * from table" on a test |
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>>server with 15 test clients => will break in production environnement |
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>>with thousands of clients. |
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> I have a 900mhz celeron (copermine), and maybe its the love-sources and |
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> ~x86 packages, but ive still been able to do crazy things like talk on |
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> irc, have firefox open, update some programs, all while 'emerge sync'-ing |
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> without too much preformance lost* (now if i forget to turn off |
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> seti@××××××××.then my computer will simply lockup untill i can get to a |
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> tty). You might want to check out if theres something with your laptop, if |
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> these extremly long times happen with other equpiment. |
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> * I should mention i emerge sync every one or two days. |
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Rsync doesn't work with the corporate proxy + firewall. I have to use |
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emerge-webrsync (ev. 2 or 3 days). |
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