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

[Mark Knecht]

On 10/11/05, Bastian Balthazar Bux <BastianBalthazarBux@×××××××××.it> wrote:
> Mark Knecht ha scritto:
> > 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
> >
> maybe this can interest you
> "Cache rewrite backport"
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.portage.devel/1105
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Interesting, but very new as I see it. Scary.

thanks,
Mark

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