From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FjPnh-0001u0-K9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 26 May 2006 00:03:34 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k4Q00edH025255; Fri, 26 May 2006 00:00:40 GMT Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (whirlwind.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.76]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4PNpoU7016241 for ; Thu, 25 May 2006 23:51:51 GMT Received: from orpheus (unknown [150.101.6.82]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBD18131877 for ; Fri, 26 May 2006 09:51:47 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow From: Iain Buchanan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: <20060525193011.GA31991@halffull.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 09:21:42 +0930 Message-Id: <1148601102.21669.15.camel@orpheus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 69230239-55a4-4c1e-964b-e8ef35d75b9b X-Archives-Hash: 11b0181cc2175fd883907e36382780af On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 16:00 -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: > On 5/25/06, Thomas Kirchner wrote: > > > It takes about as long to start going as it does to open the archive > > > /portage-20060123.tar.bz2 - conincidence? I think not! > > > > I think so ;) > > If it's not, then I really need to ask why on earth portage takes so > long to just index and search packages that took apt-get much less > time to work with. In defence of portage, I estimate there are 11229 packages that portage has to search through descriptions, dependencies, masks, etc: $ cd /usr/portage; find . -maxdepth 2 -mindepth 1 -type d | wc -l 11229 does apt-get really search this many packages? > I don't think it should be this slow. And I don't think I should have this little money :) But seriously, I think you trade off speed when searching, vs speed when syncing, vs keeping a database up to date. As already mentioned, there are other tools to help speed it up. Also, On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 11:45 -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: > > I also get the bonehead award: there was a new kernel sitting on my > hard drive and just yesterday I found and installed it. It was > remarkably easy to install! I loaded the configuration file from my > old kernel and then just make && make install and it worked! I didn't > even have to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst! Are you sure you're running it if you didn't have to edit grub? Does `uname -r` agree with the new version you just installed? cya, -- Iain Buchanan A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. -- Robert Frost -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list