From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32303 invoked by uid 1002); 31 Aug 2003 14:04:46 -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 6786 invoked from network); 31 Aug 2003 14:04:45 -0000 Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 17:16:17 +0300 (EEST) From: leio@hercules.dustbite.org To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <3F51EFB3.7050303@milsson.nu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] What happend to portage speed? X-Archives-Salt: 4a5ce56e-511a-4cc1-8248-365492a5a3da X-Archives-Hash: eecfed45b1ad850e84d584add0bb1fbb 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list