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Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 15:49 -0800, Allen Parker wrote: |
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> |
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>><angry rant> |
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>>why don't we put more stuff in mirror://gentoo/ ?? ${FILESDIR} has too |
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>>much SHIT in it... i appreciate that patches, etc have been placed |
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>>there... but we REALLY need to find a better place. I don't need my |
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>>emerge sync's taking 45 minutes on average on a 5Mbit line in |
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>>france... *45 minutes* ...just PLEASE keep the SHIT out of the portage |
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>>tree. |
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> |
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> |
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> While I completely agree that things need to be taken out of |
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> ${FILESDIR}, I have a question for you. Could you give the specs of |
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> your machine? I have several machines and even on my oldest machine |
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> with an ATA33 drive and 128MB of RAM, it takes nowhere near 45 minutes |
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> to rsync the tree. Are you using your geographic rsync mirror? Do you |
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> have any other I/O bound processes running at the same time? I'm not |
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> trying to do anything other than point out that your times seem awfully |
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> long in my experience and there is a distinct possibility that something |
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> else is causing the slowdown to such extremes on your system. |
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> |
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I also have an old box (P100 w/ 128MB of RAM, 2 ATA33 disks at ~6MB/sec, udma |
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not available) and it takes ~45 minutes to run emerge --sync. Bandwidth is not |
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the bottleneck because its mirror is sitting next to it. The bottleneck is the |
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sheer number of files to check. |
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FYI: /usr/portage : |
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16276 - directories |
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83779 - files including |
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L_ 24820 files under /files/ |
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L_ 19118 files under /metadata/cache/ |
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16314 - Digest |
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16284 - .ebuild |
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7816 - Manifest |
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7812 - ChangeLog |
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6726 - metadata.xml |
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5100 - .patch / .diff |
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223 - Archive (gz/bz2/tar/...) |
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89 - make.defaults |
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78 - virtuals |
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67 - parent |
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61 - use.mask |
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49 - use.defaults |
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4042 - Uncategorized |
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My 2/100 of your currency, |
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-- |
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/ Xavier Neys |
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\_ Gentoo Documentation Project |
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/ French & Internationalisation Lead |
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