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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FjU7O-0001RH-7J for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 26 May 2006 04:40:10 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k4Q4cLMa025567; Fri, 26 May 2006 04:38:21 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.169]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4Q4XDSi004815 for ; Fri, 26 May 2006 04:33:13 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id s2so11434uge for ; Thu, 25 May 2006 21:33:13 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=oJQA18fr6o7xO1E1EuvNLO0/XV5AUX5rCXPzJ9brsd4GLhCihZi7jl53jKgVLueo51qLlFkkodf8y0MoKW8VQMG9tQobEHtmyDi+eFRuhupTy8m49w2h1Cu1HDzwA9Pqgei2MCbbZAW50B28ODXWpHYSm84tjFrlSA2XBsKvXmg= Received: by 10.66.185.40 with SMTP id i40mr60016ugf; Thu, 25 May 2006 21:33:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.218.2 with HTTP; Thu, 25 May 2006 21:33:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 21:33:13 -0700 From: "Lord Sauron" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow In-Reply-To: <1148601102.21669.15.camel@orpheus> 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=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060525193011.GA31991@halffull.org> <1148601102.21669.15.camel@orpheus> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k4Q4XDSi004815 X-Archives-Salt: 8723245b-cf19-4f1d-a0a5-08f2b26a9443 X-Archives-Hash: 49878377b3432c86ff767da39bc63c14 On 5/25/06, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 16:00 -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: > > On 5/25/06, Thomas Kirchner wrote: > > > > > It takes about as long to start going as it does to open the archive > > > > /portage-20060123.tar.bz2 - conincidence? I think not! > > > > > > I think so ;) > > > > If it's not, then I really need to ask why on earth portage takes so > > long to just index and search packages that took apt-get much less > > time to work with. > > In defence of portage, I estimate there are 11229 packages that portage > has to search through descriptions, dependencies, masks, etc: apt-get (as of Debian 3.1 Sarge) searches 33,333 seperate packages or so. > $ cd /usr/portage; find . -maxdepth 2 -mindepth 1 -type d | wc -l > 11229 > > does apt-get really search this many packages? It does more. > > I don't think it should be this slow. > > And I don't think I should have this little money :) But seriously, I > think you trade off speed when searching, vs speed when syncing, vs > keeping a database up to date. As already mentioned, there are other > tools to help speed it up. Yeah, well... apt-get was faster on the sync and on the search. It's not fair to compare installation times, but it was also faster on calculating the dependencies. If anything, this is a indicator that I need to try and contribute to the portage project... at least contribute as much as I'm able. > Also, > > On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 11:45 -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: > > > > I also get the bonehead award: there was a new kernel sitting on my > > hard drive and just yesterday I found and installed it. It was > > remarkably easy to install! I loaded the configuration file from my > > old kernel and then just make && make install and it worked! I didn't > > even have to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst! > > Are you sure you're running it if you didn't have to edit grub? Does > `uname -r` agree with the new version you just installed? I went through dmesg and stuff and I'm totally positive. -- ========== GCv3.12 ========== GCS d-(++) s+: a? C++ UL+>++++ P+ L++ E--- W+(+++) N++ o? K? w--- O? M+ V? PS- PE+ Y-(--) PGP- t+++ 5? X R tv-- b+ DI+++ D+ G e* h- !r !y ========= END GCv3.12 ======== -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list