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Subject: Why does portsdb -Uu run so long?
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Since I've gone back to the "old foolproof way" of updating my system, I'm
doing a "portsdb -Uu" again - which has always taken forever to run on my
various machines.  Is there a way to speed it up (without replacing it), or
has anyone looked at it to see if it needs rewriting?

I worked at a place where a monthly mainframe job ran for 24 hours, and the
whole plant had to shutdown while it ran (which wasnt too big a deal since
it was on Sunday).  When the job started taking 36 hours to run and the
original programmer was too busy to fix it,  they brought in a consultant t=
o
help.  He re-wrote the job so it ran in 15 minutes.  The original programme=
r
was fired two days later.  Since then, I've always been suspicous of jobs
that run for long periods of time.