Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 05:41:04 -0500 From: Xn Nooby <xnooby@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Why does portsdb -Uu run so long? Message-ID: <bdf25fde0602010241i30ed79c9x2818c3fa35abf731@mail.gmail.com>
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Since I've gone back to the "old foolproof way" of updating my system, I'm doing a "portsdb -Uu" again - which has always taken forever to run on my various machines. Is there a way to speed it up (without replacing it), or has anyone looked at it to see if it needs rewriting? I worked at a place where a monthly mainframe job ran for 24 hours, and the whole plant had to shutdown while it ran (which wasnt too big a deal since it was on Sunday). When the job started taking 36 hours to run and the original programmer was too busy to fix it, they brought in a consultant t= o help. He re-wrote the job so it ran in 15 minutes. The original programme= r was fired two days later. Since then, I've always been suspicous of jobs that run for long periods of time.
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