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Subject: Re: portsdb -Uu hung
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Are you *sure* it's hung?  -U does a "make index" in /usr/ports which 
takes *forever* as it has to run a make command in *every single port*. 

If you've just updated your ports tree with cvsup then consider running 
"make fetchindex" from /usr/ports which just grabs the latest pre-built 
version and then just doing "portsdb -u", though anything that needs the 
.db file to be up-to-date will do this automatically.

--Alex

PS The thread you reference seems to be about portupgrade -a which is 
confusing since your subject line says portsdb -Uu.  Though both part of 
portupgrade, the similarity ends there.

Like Lowell said:

>Does it suck up CPU while it's hung?

What does top show for CPU usage?  You will probably not see any process hogging the cpu as, like I said, it's one short make after another after another after another ... repeat until sick.