From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 15 18:53:31 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E19F416A4CE for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 18:53:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from phantom.chiptech.com (phantom.chiptech.com [69.41.161.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 35BAE43D2F for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 18:53:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@jc-news.com) Received: (qmail 10414 invoked from network); 15 Sep 2004 18:53:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.10?) (64.115.119.58) by 0 with SMTP; 15 Sep 2004 18:53:30 -0000 Message-ID: <41489069.2050501@jc-news.com> Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 14:56:41 -0400 From: John Cholewa User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040707 MultiZilla/1.6.4.0b X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: portupgrade running slower than before? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 18:53:32 -0000 I started "portupgrade -ra" on my home mail server (FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE) two or three hours ago. It says "[Updating the pkgdb in /var/db/pkg ... - 246 packages found (-0 +1) . done]", and the output hasn't changed since. For much of this time, ruby18 has been using 90% of my system's resources. It's obviously doing *something*, but I can't see any ironclad progress in terms of packages being updated. As recently as a few weeks ago, running this same thing would start installing programs within minutes at most. The only major change that I've made in the past couple weeks is getting rid of stale dependencies. Most of these were caused by XFree86-Libraries (staled as xorg-libraries), so I just uninstalled and reinstalled (from ports, naturally) X. Anyway, is this normal? Should I set my machine to upgrade to FreeBSD-5.3 or something like that? I did a "cvsup ports-supfile && portsdb -uU" the other day. Should I do anything following that? Thanks in advance. :) -- -JC