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From: Rajiv Aaron Manglani <rajiv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] extremely long cache update times
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 16:11:37
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.60.0411101111210.22297@bronze.bos.imagineblue.com
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4 hello folks. with portage .51 my machine takes 40-45 minutes to update
5 metadata after a sync or by running 'emerge metadata'. ferringb
6 suggested removing calls to portage_locks.lockfile() and
7 portage_locks.unlockfile() in /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_db_flat.py
8 and sure enough, cache update times returned to a respectable 6-8
9 minutes. any ideas as to how to debug this slowdown? a profile
10 generated using:
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12 for x in 1 2 3; do time /usr/lib/portage/bin/pemerge.py metadata \
13 - --quiet --nospinner &> /dev/null; done
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15 is at: <http://dev.gentoo.org/~rajiv/tmp/prof.bz2>
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17 machine specs:
18 dual p3 933, 1gig ram
19 quantum atlas V scsi drives
20 /var, /tmp are reiserfs on lvm partitions
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Re: [gentoo-dev] extremely long cache update times Robert Moss <robmoss@g.o>