Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 17:26:08 +0800 From: Jiawei Ye <leafy7382@gmail.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: Aurelien Nephtali <aurelien.nephtali@wanadoo.fr> Subject: Re: 'sort' tool is eating my system ressources Message-ID: <c21e92e2040728022655bdfae8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20040728083252.GA72137@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20040728081719.GA17127@nebula.wanadoo.fr> <20040728083252.GA72137@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 09:32:52 +0100, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > Sounds like portupgrade is building an INDEX file. You'll see a > message about running 'portsdb -Uu' if it is. What you've seen is > pretty much the expected impact I'd expect from doing that. > > You should be able to download a recently build INDEX file by running > > # make fetchindex > > before starting your portupgrade -- it's about 6Mb. After doing that > portupgrade will only need to run 'portsdb -u' which is a lot lighter > weight. > > Although if your system can build the INDEX file in 5 minutes, you > might as well let it do that. Takes more like 20 minutes on my > machine. > > Cheers, > > Matthew I recommend highly sysutils/portindex, which does incremental builds and takes very little time to build new INDEX, INDEX-5. Jiawei Ye
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?c21e92e2040728022655bdfae8>