From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 8 17:18:24 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C381B1065670 for ; Tue, 8 Mar 2011 17:18:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bf1783@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-yi0-f54.google.com (mail-yi0-f54.google.com [209.85.218.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8166A8FC0A for ; Tue, 8 Mar 2011 17:18:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yie12 with SMTP id 12so2370943yie.13 for ; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 09:18:23 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:reply-to:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=oBROvzQh210sUxR2lUGjuWCoz9wZLgmGMvBJ1lcge3o=; b=ofvyktWFs3aE+dRXRd0m9KvRxb284AJpwoVnQdEZpizR+TObj06Ck84I3bUNDwZbkU CsZ1pKzbaFPGU1Xn0Q5hwfl9Jnho5Yyw4MAZ11jb38RBZehnS8cYX5mj0tFG7lnzUpJp TaP83ESdORe8oX9H6mYfy2zH9xje7/fRyzBnA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type; b=pESdEbEycpIjcrWf9gG54ssiZ4D3ghpGThqepHAEvNNTciWuu0sr+v267WDV7J/3MO LOZ0M5qXFs8GjUlYtmFjZ1KhUWNimgYjrQMiNi0/yG4DUZU1bMjmYf2WUPRYuCrHzkHY azs0V0rUGDPJ5Qxob65HYBTrKf0GeLAQGp1kU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.236.108.10 with SMTP id p10mr1700344yhg.52.1299604703605; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 09:18:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.236.108.44 with HTTP; Tue, 8 Mar 2011 09:18:23 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 17:18:23 +0000 Message-ID: From: "b. f." To: Michel Talon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD needs fresh Blood! X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: bf1783@gmail.com List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 17:18:24 -0000 >portmaster -L --index-only 0.76s user 1.65s system 6% cpu 38.871 total > >So it takes 38s on a *very small* installation. My experience is that >all FreeBSD ports tools are incredibly slow, be it portupgrade, >portmaster, even the basic tools like pkg_version. Maybe it would help >to recognize that such observations are perhaps not unrelated to the >original poster comments. I am only seeing ~8s for this on my 9-CURRENT amd64 system with ~400 ports, including the time to download a new index from the server. These comparisons aren't very helpful when they're not accompanied by enough information to reason about causes. "Incredibly slow" is rather subjective. Compared to what? What specific recommendations do you have for improvements? And I might add, why haven't you submitted your own tools as a port, since you seem to think, as you have written elsewhere, that they offer substantial improvements over the others that are available? b.