From: "Bruno Lustosa" <bruno.lists@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What on Earth is Portage doing for so long?
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 11:02:01 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b9e0c3fe0603170602q48b64447s7af461425f292a72@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <441ABC69.5000406@veldy.net>
On 3/17/06, Thomas T. Veldhouse <veldy@veldy.net> wrote:
> I see that portage is updating its cache for about 20 minutes these
> days!!! This is on an Athlon 600MHz box with 384MB PC133.
>
> >>> Updating Portage cache: 50%
>
> Just trying to do a sync ....
Good question :)
But one way to speed this up is to use CDB, so that instead of keeping
cache in separate files, it's all in one, resulting in a *much* faster
cache update.
There are directions here:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb
HTH
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-17 13:40 [gentoo-user] What on Earth is Portage doing for so long? Thomas T. Veldhouse
2006-03-17 14:02 ` Bruno Lustosa [this message]
2006-03-17 14:09 ` Thomas T. Veldhouse
2006-03-17 14:15 ` Alexander Skwar
2006-03-17 20:57 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-03-17 22:47 ` Mark Knecht
2006-03-17 14:49 ` Andreas Claesson
2006-03-17 14:14 ` Daniel da Veiga
2006-03-17 14:28 ` Bo Andresen
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