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Hello! |
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On Thursday 20 October 2005 03:26, Richard Fish wrote: |
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> Alex Bennee wrote: |
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> >As my system has become more lived in I've noticed the time taken to |
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> >update the cache at the end of an emerge --sync is getting slower and |
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> >slower. The system will hang around 50% for a long time and thrash the |
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> >crap out of the disks. |
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> >Is this just usual behaviour for portage? Is there anyway to flush the |
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> >cache files and start again with a clean emerge --sync? |
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> Well, you could try this: |
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> http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb |
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> Several people here (including me) are using this without any bad effects. |
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> You might also consider putting /usr/portage on it's own filesystem. |
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> That would keep the disk accessed confined to a small portion of the |
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> disk. The size should be 1-3G depending upon whether you keep distfiles |
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> and packages on the same filesystem or not. |
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I do have portage on the separate partition, but this caching process is |
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_DAMN_ slow. I remember times when it was really, really fast. WTF? |
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> -Richard |
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Best regards, |
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Andrew. |
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