From: lnxg33k <lnxg33k@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-performance@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-performance] gentoo-performance (sync speedups)
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:03:50 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43D18876.6080304@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43D18228.6070802@egr.msu.edu>
Alec Warner wrote:
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> lnxg33k wrote:
>> Thanks Alec Warner for the great explanation. It still seems like by not
>> having portions of the tree by using EXCLUDEFORM and deleting the local
>> dirs that you'd save some time in the --metadata part of sync as less
>> ebuilds are available to be checked. Is this simply a wrong misconception?
>
> The portion that "updates metadata cache" has nothing to do with what
> ebuilds are in the tree. It simply takes the server-side caches (
> pregenerated ) and sync them into your local cache. You could RSYNC
> exclude the whole tree and this will still happen for every package,
> since the metadata is generated on the server ( and the server has the
> whole tree ).
>
> Now if you were to rsync exclude metadata/ you would reduce the
> - --metadata portion...because it wouldn't happen ;)
>
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Ah, ok. Hearing it again makes it sound more reasonable. I'll have to watch my
rsync output a bit more closely. Thanks again for the explanation.
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Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-20 0:40 [gentoo-performance] gentoo-performance Ken Robbins
2006-01-20 2:28 ` lnxg33k
2006-01-20 2:30 ` Chris
2006-01-20 2:50 ` lnxg33k
2006-01-20 3:32 ` Kyle Lutze
2006-01-20 4:39 ` Christopher Bergström
2006-01-20 5:21 ` Jeremy Brake
2006-01-20 5:26 ` lnxg33k
2006-01-20 5:46 ` Michael Liesenfelt
2006-01-20 5:43 ` darren kirby
2006-01-20 6:02 ` Christopher Bergström
2006-01-20 7:44 ` darren kirby
2006-01-20 6:35 ` Alec Warner
2006-01-20 6:53 ` Jeremy Brake
2006-01-20 16:48 ` [gentoo-performance] gentoo-performance (sync speedups) lnxg33k
2006-01-21 0:36 ` Alec Warner
2006-01-21 1:03 ` lnxg33k [this message]
2006-01-20 13:51 ` [gentoo-performance] gentoo-performance Bill Roberts
2006-01-20 14:43 ` Christopher Bergström
2006-01-23 22:38 ` [gentoo-performance] How to get Maximum performance in Graphics on Nvidia Drivers XFry
2006-01-23 19:57 ` Roman Gaufman
2006-01-23 20:08 ` prymitive
2006-01-23 20:41 ` Pierrick Couturier
2006-01-24 19:23 ` Re[2]: " XFry
2006-01-25 0:07 ` Pierrick Couturier
2006-01-25 0:13 ` Chris
2006-01-23 20:02 ` omghaai
2006-01-23 20:04 ` [gentoo-performance] /proc/* under 2.6 Chris
2006-01-20 3:29 ` [gentoo-performance] gentoo-performance Alex Efros
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