[gentoo-user] Updating portage cache - slow, slower, slowest ever

[Mark Knecht]

Hi,
   It seems that over the last few months that the 'Updating portage
cache' part of an emerge sync has gotten very, very low on my
machines. Has anything changed that should have caused this? Did I
possibly miss some update step somewhere to make this run faster.

   I'd say that this step is now taking at least 10 minutes - maybe 15
minutes. Good reason not to update too often!

   I do think the speed at which emerge gets to this point is a bit
faster, and certainly I'd expect it to slow down a bit as the library
grows ever larger. I see no change at all in emerging a package - only
the sync step.

   Thanks in advance for any info.

Cheers,
Mark

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