Re: [gentoo-dev] What happend to portage speed?

[John Nilsson <john@milsson.nu>]

Actually it seems most time is spent after each "...done" statement.

-John

söndagen den 31 augusti 2003 kl 16.16 skrev leio@hercules.dustbite.org:

> On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, John Nilsson wrote:
>
>> No, no. The download is quick. But the calculation of deptree and that
>> kind of things that takes so much time.
>>
>> Also what is this metadata directory? (Sorry for not RTFM).
>>
>> -John
>>
>
> After every rsync it rebuilds the cache... at least by default.
> That's what takes the most time with an emerge sync on my 166MHz 
> computer.
> It was discussed a while ago that the cache has changed maybe by 5%, 
> but
> it does it all again. Parses some things, writes lots of files to 
> cache,
> etc. There were ideas how to make it quick again, but unfortunately 
> either
> no-one has brought it to reality or into the official portage.
> If that's not your speed problem, disregard this e-mail, but I believe
> this the most time demanding operation with emerge sync as of now.
>
> Mart Raudsepp
>
>
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