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From: Justin Krejci <jus@krytosvirus.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge starts slowly
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:34:52 -0600
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On Thursday 15 December 2005 09:45 am, Richard Fish wrote:
> On 12/14/05, Justin Krejci <jus@krytosvirus.com> wrote:
> > 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
>
> You can try something like:
>
> strace -tt -f -o /tmp/strace.out emerge -s tcpdump
>
> Then look at /tmp/strace.out and see what kind of system call is being
> made that is taking so long to complete.
>
> -Richard


Well I ran it once then ran it again to a different output file and the two 
files are the same length and doing a cursory glance thru the files they both 
seem fairly similar. When I have some time, ill check the files more closesly 
in particular the timestamps.

Thanks for the idea.
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