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From: John Nilsson <john@×××××××.nu>
To: Dejan Nikic <dejann@××××××××××××.edu>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] What happend to portage speed?
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 12:53:17
Message-Id: 3F51EFB3.7050303@milsson.nu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] What happend to portage speed? by Dejan Nikic
1 No, no. The download is quick. But the calculation of deptree and that
2 kind of things that takes so much time.
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4 Also what is this metadata directory? (Sorry for not RTFM).
5
6 -John
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8 Dejan Nikic wrote:
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10 > I noticed that some of the servers have been disconecting, I took me a
11 > while to on one some of my machines (they are much faster than what you
12 > have), but it looks like people are syncing like crazy now days :).
13 > Maybe one of those "Sync once a day" reminders is in order again.
14 >
15 > On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 23:27, Jon Portnoy wrote:
16 >
17 >>On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 08:22:39AM +0200, John Nilsson wrote:
18 >>
19 >>>I have a 486DX2 66MHz 16MB server running as NAT,DNS,DNSCACHE,MTA and
20 >>>that sort of things.
21 >>>
22 >>>A couple of months ago a "emerge rsync" would take about 20min to an
23 >>>hour to complete. But this has changed... last time I did "emerge sync"
24 >>>it was working for 20+ hours.
25 >>>What on earth happened?
26 >>>Is it worth it?
27 >>>
28 >>
29 >>The portage tree has expanded, for one thing.
30 >>
31 >>You also should make sure you're getting the metadata directory.
32 >
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