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From: Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Mariusz Ceier <mceier@×××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Portage performance dropped considerably
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 17:23:42
Message-Id: 20140131212312.ca0d98fe0aedf436d07461b0@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Portage performance dropped considerably by Mariusz Ceier
1 On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 16:53:33 +0100 Mariusz Ceier wrote:
2 > No, it's not just you, running "emerge -uNDvp world" takes slightly
3 > over 18 minutes on my laptop (i5 M 430 @ 2.27GHz) - and when there
4 > was lot to update I had to wait over 1hr to just get the list of
5 > packages. I wonder if there's some profiling tool for portage.
6 > Also:
7 > time FEATURES=-xattr emerge owncloud -v
8 > real 6m31.202s
9 > user 2m42.057s
10 > sys 2m1.541s
11 >
12 > time FEATURES=xattr emerge owncloud -v
13 > real 30m15.632s
14 > user 22m44.369s
15 > sys 5m30.129s
16 >
17 > 5 times longer - for something that's essentially copying files.
18
19 Slow xattr is a known problem, see bugs 482290, 465000:
20 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=482290
21 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465000
22
23 But xattr bug shows itself during install phase and has nothing to do
24 with dependency calculation time mentioned in the original mail.
25
26 Best regards,
27 Andrew Savchenko