Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 10:35:50 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Sean Welch <Sean_Welch@alum.wofford.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slow portupgrade in 5.3-RELEASE Message-ID: <20041123183550.GA18732@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20041123182816.GA4980@NitroPhys.welchsmnet.net> References: <20041123182816.GA4980@NitroPhys.welchsmnet.net>
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--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 We no longer store an instantly outdated INDEX in the repository.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--
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