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 1EKaQP-0004dC-4S for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:48:37 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j8SBeYli027740; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:40:34 GMT Received: from zest.lemonia.org (zest.lemonia.org [213.129.72.2]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j8SBawxN032704 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:36:58 GMT Received: from gateway.ash.thebunker.net ([213.129.64.4] helo=[172.16.3.219]) by zest.lemonia.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.51 (FreeBSD)) id 1EKaMr-000Exe-Vf for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:45:01 +0100 Message-ID: <433A81D5.5030202@lemonia.org> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:43:17 +0100 From: Dunc <dunc@lemonia.org> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <433A78B6.9060105@quanteam.info> <1cc2dc830509280420d10feed@mail.gmail.com> <433A7D85.70000@quanteam.info> In-Reply-To: <433A7D85.70000@quanteam.info> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 213.129.64.4 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: dunc@lemonia.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on zest.lemonia.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=disabled version=3.0.4 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on zest.lemonia.org) X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j8SBawxN032704 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id j8SBeYm3027740 X-Archives-Salt: 9976e74c-2393-4ebe-b340-20af1e274d57 X-Archives-Hash: 60dc4507156e77b9cc3846b70ee9ef1f Pawe=B3 Madej wrote: > Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: > >> This cache is used to resolve all packages you want to update,install >> or remove from your box; if you turn off this cache you would need to >> do the same action to every emerge option; I believe that is better to >> let it do just when updating portage tree .... :) >> >> Holpe it helps, Allan > > > Thx for fast answer. > > Ok I'll leave it as is, but maybe is there any way too speedup it? It > runs on my P3 800 / HDD 5400 rpm more that 10 minutes. > > Or it is working on every computer so slowly? > > Greets > Pawe=B3 > That sounds a bit slow, but not massively so, it takes a long time. You could CRON your emerge sync to happen in the middle of the night, and then you won't have to watch it. :-) For something you should only do once a day, 10 minutes isn't that bad though. Cheers, Dunc --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list