From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23815 invoked from network); 2 May 2004 17:08:13 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (128.193.0.39) by eagle.gentoo.oregonstate.edu with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 2 May 2004 17:08:13 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([128.193.0.34] helo=eagle.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1BKKRp-0007c6-DA for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 02 May 2004 17:08:13 +0000 Received: (qmail 26351 invoked by uid 50004); 2 May 2004 17:08:13 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 9843 invoked from network); 2 May 2004 17:08:13 +0000 Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 11:00:28 -0600 From: Jason Wever To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Message-Id: <20040502110028.19fa2a10@excelsior.weeve.org> In-Reply-To: <200405021904.20160.jstubbs@gentoo.org> References: <1083296558.8842.127.camel@woot.uberdavis.com> <20040502034034.GA26131@cerberus.oppresses.us> <200405021904.20160.jstubbs@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="Signature=_Sun__2_May_2004_11_00_29_-0600_jrj+cj8sfA75MDp_" Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: 2004.2 Feature Requests X-Archives-Salt: 130bd68f-7e5c-43c8-b8b0-e3475b3bd2f2 X-Archives-Hash: 973f1a8966b542165fa3171cfa95d5ce --Signature=_Sun__2_May_2004_11_00_29_-0600_jrj+cj8sfA75MDp_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Sun, 2 May 2004 19:04:16 +0900 Jason Stubbs wrote: > The performance issues are partially db-related, but the biggest > "problem" is having to call bash. The current caching in portage is > still stored in a file-based "database". The difference in access times > of the portage database and the cache is that the cache files have a set > format. Most emerge commands, be it to sync the tree or perform a package operation are very slow due to this bash handicap. On one of the faster sparc32 machines you can get, I'm seeing the following for a pretend emerge of a package with few dependencies to calculate; reliant root # time emerge -pv dnsmasq These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] net-dns/dnsmasq-2.5 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB real 0m23.827s user 0m21.750s sys 0m1.310s A good portion of this time doesn't even show any output from emerge at all. Cheers, -- Jason Wever Gentoo/Sparc Team Co-Lead --Signature=_Sun__2_May_2004_11_00_29_-0600_jrj+cj8sfA75MDp_ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAlSkudKvgdVioq28RAnbzAJ45pRAVhKfOAKdXpMQqfyQXdAesHACgp0Id QlUe4A2K4HtdYl0c6LmhazU= =HJkZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Sun__2_May_2004_11_00_29_-0600_jrj+cj8sfA75MDp_--