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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net>
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On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 11:27:47PM -0600, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 19:57:34 -0800, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
> wrote:
>=20
> > On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 10:48:29PM -0500, dave wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >     I've got a box that runs portupgrade to keep the most current
> > >     ports.
> > > I've lately switched to make fetchindex vs. portsdb -uU which goes
> > > much faster. My problem is whenever i do a make search for a port
> > > the index.5 file is regenerated and that takes an extremely long
> > > time. I was wondering if this is normal behavior, and what if
> > > anything i could do to speed it up?
> >=20
> > make fetchindex
> >=20
> > Kris
>=20
> You can also increase the concurrency of "portsdb -U"/"make index" by
> setting INDEX_JOBS in /etc/make.conf.  The default number of parallel
> jobs is 2.  Increasing this to, say, 8, will save some time in building
> the index.

In my testing 4 helped on a dual SMP machine but 8 didn't, because the
process was I/O bound already at 4.

Kris
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