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On Friday 26 December 2008 21:49:02 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> OK, I once again verified that fragmentation seems to be a big issue |
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> even on Linux. I just migrated to ext4, and in order to do that I had |
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> to rsync, format and rsync back. The result is similar to the last time |
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> I did this (over 8 months ago): |
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> emerge --sync takes 15 seconds (at least 3 minutes yesterday) |
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> update-eix takes 2 seconds (20 seconds yesterday) |
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> And I don't believe it's due to ext4. It's a nice speed-up from ext3, |
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> but not THAT nice. |
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Um, did it occur to you that after you emerge --sync'ed yesterday and ran |
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update-eix that your portage tree is now very up to date and your eix cache |
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is hot? |
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Therefore successive runs will naturally be much quicker? And that yesterday |
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was xmas day, a day most likely to involve very few if any portage updates? |
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Or that emerge --sync could easily speed up simply because you had more |
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bandwidth? |
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Your speed-ups likely have very little to do with your filesystem. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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