From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 20 18:47:47 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE05A1065675 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:47:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fsb@thefsb.org) Received: from smtp124.iad.emailsrvr.com (smtp124.iad.emailsrvr.com [207.97.245.124]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B967D8FC0A for ; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:47:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fsb@thefsb.org) Received: from relay2.r2.iad.emailsrvr.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by relay2.r2.iad.emailsrvr.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 7D84144C029 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:47:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: by relay2.r2.iad.emailsrvr.com (Authenticated sender: fsb-AT-thefsb.org) with ESMTPSA id 5A60844C00B for ; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:47:47 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.10.0.080409 Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:47:45 -0400 From: Tom Worster To: Message-ID: Thread-Topic: portmaster -a on a live server Thread-Index: AcnB6H4pMGf2V4xlKkm31kupcDlFbA== Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Subject: portmaster -a on a live server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:47:48 -0000 though all i really need is mysql/apache/php i have about 100 ports installed and portmaster -a takes a long time to complete (hour or two). so i'm wondering if i ought to be concerned about new binaries being installed over the old ones on the disk while the old images are loaded and running as daemons. instead of doing portmaster -a, is there any advantage to: portmaster -a -x mysql\-server -x apache portmaster mysql\-server apache reboot in order to minimize the time that the old servers are running while the new images are on the disk? tom