From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 1 17:25:34 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E51FA1065676 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 2009 17:25:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr3.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr3.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B7888FC13 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 2009 17:25:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr3.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n61HPXcx002466; Wed, 1 Jul 2009 19:25:33 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B8B89BA9B; Wed, 1 Jul 2009 19:25:32 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 19:25:32 +0200 From: Roland Smith To: Manish Jain Message-ID: <20090701172532.GA37269@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <4A4AFC07.6070508@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="huq684BweRXVnRxX" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A4AFC07.6070508@gmail.com> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Questions on portmaster X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:25:35 -0000 --huq684BweRXVnRxX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 11:32:47AM +0530, Manish Jain wrote: >=20 > Hi, >=20 > I am using portmaster on FreeBSD-7.2 to keep my ports up to date. When=20 > there are multiple ports to be updated, portmaster will fork off child=20 > processes. Does each child start 'make fetch' in the background ? The fetches are not done in parallel. > I ask=20 > this because the parent process attached to the console reports very low= =20 > data transfer rates (in the range of 0.7 to 4.0 kBps, while normally I=20 > get 30 to 35 kBps). This is not enough data to ascertain there is a problem with fetch. If you are fetching from a busy site, or via a busy upstream channel it can be slow. > Further, how can portmaster be tuned to automatically ignore ports which= =20 > are actually marked as IGNORE in the port directory ? touch /var/db/pkg//+IGNOREME > This is not covered in the manpage. It is. Look in the FILES section of portmaster(8). =20 Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --huq684BweRXVnRxX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkpLnAwACgkQEnfvsMMhpyUwVwCfToaIRUXxYFT8vIzxdT/Cpiap jTUAn2WpOPx+bBDdIKAA9u9wrJ4p0P/z =+sP3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --huq684BweRXVnRxX--