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 4.43) id 1EKdyn-0008PS-19 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:36:21 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j8SFRx6g005058; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:27:59 GMT Received: from mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com [81.103.221.49]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j8SFJwV5031885 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:19:58 GMT Received: from aamta11-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20050928152709.OALI9239.mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamta11-winn.ispmail.ntl.com> for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:27:09 +0100 Received: from winn.cable.ntl.com ([82.5.33.210]) by aamta11-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20050928152709.XHIO1770.aamta11-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@winn.cable.ntl.com> for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:27:09 +0100 From: Tony Davison Organization: none To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:27:03 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <002801c5c431$28368370$4501010a@jnetlab.lcl> <433AB279.20408@planet.nl> In-Reply-To: <433AB279.20408@planet.nl> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200509281627.04066.tony.davison2@ntlworld.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id j8SFRx71005058 X-Archives-Salt: e8394927-a581-4838-9be1-96fce90ae40c X-Archives-Hash: cd8a367fcde0114caf7d44aca1354d0b On Wednesday 28 September 2005 16:10, Holly Bostick wrote: > Dave Nebinger schreef: > >> It's very very slow and I dont know why. So my question is could I > >> some way turn off this cache? > > > > I've had a lot of luck with the cdb patch for portage. It's > > mentioned in the gentoo wiki. I haven't measured to see how syncs > > are impacted but regular portage stuff seems faster. > > This sounds quite interesting, but I can't find any mention of this > patch on the Wiki, even after two searches on the Wiki and 3 on > Google. I feel pretty dumb, since Pawe=C5=82 clearly found it easily, b= ut > I can't. > > Help...? Its under tips and tricks portage. Just found it myself. HTH PS=20 Hows the cold? --=20 Tony Davison tony.davison2@ntlworld.com --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list