From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 10 15:30:39 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A08A416A626 for ; Wed, 10 May 2006 15:30:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from noackjr@alumni.rice.edu) Received: from smtp102.biz.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp102.biz.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.229.216]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C63D743D6D for ; Wed, 10 May 2006 15:30:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from noackjr@alumni.rice.edu) Received: (qmail 77911 invoked from network); 10 May 2006 15:29:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO optimator.noacks.org) (noackjr@supercrime.org@24.99.22.177 with login) by smtp102.biz.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 10 May 2006 15:29:48 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E32D6114; Wed, 10 May 2006 11:29:48 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at noacks.org Received: from optimator.noacks.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (optimator.noacks.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id I-OmVAAdm9+B; Wed, 10 May 2006 11:29:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from compgeek.noacks.org (compgeek [192.168.1.10]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2038960D4; Wed, 10 May 2006 11:29:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by compgeek.noacks.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4AFTj9d008921; Wed, 10 May 2006 11:29:46 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from noackjr@alumni.rice.edu) Message-ID: <446206DF.7020607@alumni.rice.edu> Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 11:29:35 -0400 From: Jonathan Noack User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060422) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gareth References: <20060510073107.GA19897@lordcow.org> <20060510102222.GA25464@lordcow.org> In-Reply-To: <20060510102222.GA25464@lordcow.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 OpenPGP: id=991D8195; url=http://www.noacks.org/cert/noackjr.asc Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigD6FB421CAA45D59543FC3B7A" Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portsdb X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: noackjr@alumni.rice.edu List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 15:30:40 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigD6FB421CAA45D59543FC3B7A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 05/10/06 06:22, gareth wrote: > On Wed 2006-05-10 (09:31), gareth wrote: >> hey guys, i've been having this trouble on and off for >> quite awhile, sometimes while running 'portsdb -Uu' >> (after a cvsup) the box just freezes, along with the >> power? i'm running 5.3-RELEASE. >=20 > ok, i did: >=20 > cd /usr/ports > rm INDEX* > make fetchindex >=20 > amongst other things, and every time, running 'portsdb -Uu' > cripples the machine. i'm not too keen to see where exactly > it dies since it'll result in another hard shutdown. You are probably experiencing some of the VFS limitations in 5.3 (you'll be pleasantly surprised by 6.1!). "portsdb -Uu" is very CPU and IO intensive; it takes a long time on a fast machine. "make fetchindex" is provided as a replacement for having to run "portsdb -Uu". The only downside is that the downloaded INDEX-5.db may be a few hours out of date= =2E > but, if i just run portversion, it creates the INDEX-5.db, > so i'm not sure why i'm running 'portsdb -Uu' in the first > place? I would highly recommend checking out portsnap; it builds an up-to-date INDEX-5.db file automatically as part of the update process. -Jonathan --=20 Jonathan Noack | noackjr@alumni.rice.edu | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195 --------------enigD6FB421CAA45D59543FC3B7A Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEYgbpUFz01pkdgZURAjcBAKCUHHuP1kQhd6HGIws1KF6wQrQVMQCg1dSp gusZ0QIG9lb++37w0Yfiv8A= =Je84 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigD6FB421CAA45D59543FC3B7A--