From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 23 18:35:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61C1F16A4CE for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 18:35:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EB8F43D3F for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 18:35:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id iANIZojV021105; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 10:35:50 -0800 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0/Submit) id iANIZoGr021104; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 10:35:50 -0800 Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 10:35:50 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Sean Welch Message-ID: <20041123183550.GA18732@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <20041123182816.GA4980@NitroPhys.welchsmnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041123182816.GA4980@NitroPhys.welchsmnet.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=8.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on odin.ac.hmc.edu cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slow portupgrade in 5.3-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 18:35:40 -0000 --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 12:28:16PM -0600, Sean Welch wrote: > I just compiled portupgrade from an updated ports system 3 days ago. > I've noticed that the program is inordinately slow during the db > update phase where it displays the following: >=20 > Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait.. >=20 > By "inordinate" I mean it takes 15 to 20 minutes to complete. This is > definitely not the case under any other revision of FreeBSD I've ever > tried to use it on... >=20 > Is anyone else seeing this? Any suggestions as to what the problem > might be? It seems to be spending all this time constructing INDEX > files under a subdirectory up in /tmp -- and doing it SLOWLY. Read /usr/ports/UPDATING. We no longer store an instantly outdated INDEX in the repository. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBo4MFXY6L6fI4GtQRAn40AJ45ZiwmUq3CgDWLAd6UxSW7Pg9OEQCgteZb 3UdfkDK1rceua9lio+eeAUM= =hgRO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j--