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From: marcov@stack.nl (Marco van de Voort)
Subject: portupgrade slow?
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I was upgrading an old machine (P-II 233), and tried to use portupgrade to
update the installed ports.

However, it is now only building portupgrade's own _index_ for the building
and that takes hours already. 

I know it is a lot of metadata in a lot of files, but this is _really_
extreme. Why is portupgrade so horribly, horribly slow?