Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 11:53:56 +0200 From: Aurelien Nephtali <aurelien.nephtali@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk Subject: Re: 'sort' tool is eating my system ressources Message-ID: <20040728095356.GA20040@nebula.wanadoo.fr> 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>
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Thanks :) It fixed the problem! On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 09:32:52AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 10:17:19AM +0200, Aurelien Nephtali wrote: > > > Each time I launch a 'portupgrade -ak', it takes ~5min to start > > upgrading, eats totally my RAM and ~130Mo of swap... > > Doing a 'top' shows 5-6 occurences of 'sort', each one eating ~26Mo!! > > I can remember that before the 'sort' import, everything was fine! > > Somebody knows why ? or experienced that ? > > 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 > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks > Savill Way > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow > Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK -- NEPHTALI 'dak' Aurelien TEK1 - Promo 2008
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