[gentoo-user] emerge starts slowly

[Justin Krejci <jus@krytosvirus.com>]

I have a system with a 1.33Ghz Athlon-XP with a decently fast IDE hard drive
I have a system with a 1.80Ghz AMD64 with a decently fast IDE hard drive

When I run "emerge -s whatever" or "emerge sync" or any emerge command 
apparently, it usually takes about 1 second to start the command on the AMD64 
system whereas on the Athlon-XP system it usually takes about 10-30 seconds 
fore the command to start. What I mean by that is for example

1. # emerge -s tcpdump  (press enter)
2. Searching... spinner
3. output of search

the time it takes to get to #2 is 1 or less seconds on the AMD64 and 10-30 
seconds on the Athlon-XP.

As I said, this seems to be the case for any emerge command on the Athlon-XP 
system. I seem to recall it not being so slow in the past. Both are on 2.6 
kernels and both have pleanty of RAM. Gentoo was was installed on the 
Athlon-XP about 2 or 3 years ago but it is up to date.

Anyone have any ideas?

Athlon-XP emerge info: 

Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 
2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1500+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.2.3-r5, 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.20
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -funroll-loops -ftracer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env\
 /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config\
 /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -funroll-loops -ftracer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://128.213.5.34/gentoo/ 
http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow X X509 acl adns alsa apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts 
bonobo bzip2 cddb cdr chroot crypt cups curl dedicated directfb divx4linux 
dts dvb dvd dvdr dvdread edl eds emboss encode esd ethereal exif expat fam 
ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran freetds gd gdbm gif gimp glut gphoto2 gpm 
gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hpn idn imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 jabber java 
jpeg junit kde kdeenablefinal kdexdeltas lcms ldap libcaca libg++ libwww mad 
matroska mhash mikmod mmx mng motif mp3 mpeg mppe-mppc mssql mysql nas 
ncurses network nls nowin nvidia ogg oggvorbis openal opengl openntpd openssh 
oss pam pcre pdflib perl png python qt quicktime rdesktop readline real samba 
scanner sdl sftplogging slang snmp speex spell sse ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd 
tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb videos vorbis wmf xine 
xinerama xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
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