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From: Ryan L <drseus88@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again?
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 00:28:07
Message-Id: 436806F9.5080208@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again? by Dale
1 Dale wrote:
2
3 >Fernando Meira wrote:
4 >
5 >
6 >
7 >>Have you ran some command that caches the portage dir to memory before
8 >>updating portage cache? That normally speeds up.. but then again,
9 >>maybe there were changes so that the annoying problem got fixed...
10 >>
11 >>Fernando
12 >>
13 >>
14 >
15 >You been running that du -s command to huh? It does work. I really
16 >need it on my old 200MHz machine. Would you happen to know what that
17 >command does? I read the man page but it didn't help much. I'm
18 >learning though.
19 >
20 >Dale
21 >
22 >
23 >
24 What is this 'du -s command' you speak of? If it makes things faster, I
25 have to try it!
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Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again? Dale <dalek@××××××××××.net>