Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 11:29:35 -0400 From: Jonathan Noack <noackjr@alumni.rice.edu> To: gareth <bsd@lordcow.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portsdb Message-ID: <446206DF.7020607@alumni.rice.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060510102222.GA25464@lordcow.org> References: <20060510073107.GA19897@lordcow.org> <20060510102222.GA25464@lordcow.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] 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. > > ok, i did: > > cd /usr/ports > rm INDEX* > make fetchindex > > 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 The only downside is that the downloaded INDEX-5.db may be a few hours out of date. > 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 -- Jonathan Noack | noackjr@alumni.rice.edu | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEYgbpUFz01pkdgZURAjcBAKCUHHuP1kQhd6HGIws1KF6wQrQVMQCg1dSp gusZ0QIG9lb++37w0Yfiv8A= =Je84 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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