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From: Fernando Meira <fmeira@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again?
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 13:00:49
Message-Id: a3c2e88b0511010433l61ba34c2je03364a82bf6f9f0@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again? by Benno Schulenberg
1 On 11/1/05, Benno Schulenberg <benno.schulenberg@×××××.com> wrote:
2 >
3 > Today the updating of the portage cache was real quick -- something
4 > like a minute, instead of the ten minutes it used to take during
5 > the past month or so. What has changed?
6 >
7 > Was it the r2 to r3 update on glibc-2.3.5? Did I emerge something
8 > in the meantime that Portage uses if present but does not depend
9 > upon? (lzo?) Or was a whole lot of data removed from the tree?
10 >
11 > Benno
12 > --
13 > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
14 >
15 > Have you ran some command that caches the portage dir to memory before
16 updating portage cache? That normally speeds up.. but then again, maybe
17 there were changes so that the annoying problem got fixed...
18
19 Fernando

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Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again? Dale <dalek@××××××××××.net>