Re: [gentoo-user] emerge starts slowly

[Justin Krejci]

On Thursday 15 December 2005 03:49 am, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:14:13 -0600, Justin Krejci wrote:
> > When I run "emerge -s whatever" or "emerge sync" or any emerge command
> > apparently, it usually takes about 1 second to start the command on the
> > AMD64 system whereas on the Athlon-XP system it usually takes about
> > 10-30 seconds fore the command to start.
>
> Is that just the first time you run a portage command? I see the same on
> my AMD64, it can take up to 30 seconds to run emerge --info, but only
> around a second to run it again.
>
> It's clearly something to do with loading the various Python libraries,
> classes or modules, but I haven't been able to pin down why it takes so
> long.

Yes, the second run and subsequent runs for a period of time all seem to be 
fairly quick, but I thought it odd that my AMD64 system is always quick.
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