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From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
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Subject: reinstalling port - long pkg create run times
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This seems too long:

  PID USERNAME   THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU COMMAND
 5861 root         1 101    0   162M 32800K RUN     38:06 91.70% pkg


96440  0  I+       0:00.15 |           `-- /bin/sh /usr/local/sbin/portmaster ghost teTeX
 5722  0  I+       0:00.11 |             `-- /bin/sh /usr/local/sbin/portmaster teTeX-texmf-3.0_8
 5861  0  R+      38:17.67 |               `-- pkg create teTeX-texmf-3.0_8

This is on 

real memory  = 2147483648 (2048 MB)
avail memory = 2079154176 (1982 MB)
cpu0: Sun Microsystems UltraSparc-IIIi Processor (1503.00 MHz CPU)

Are such long run times to be expected on this box
on pkg create?

Thanks

Anton