With the size of the vdb effecting the speed of portage itself and with all the desktop splitting up packages into massively large sets of many ebuilds it's becoming apparent that that some optimizations need to be done.
strace -o woof -eopen -f python -c 'import portage' grep '/var/db/pkg/sys-apps/portage-' woof You will notice that on a simple import that it's reading everything twice. If anybody is up for the challenge of addressing this double reading I think the entire user community would be thankful (or atleast I would be) The time it takes to import portage with only 78 pkgs installed takes about 1 second. On the same box in another chroot it takes over 4-5 seconds with about 400 packages installed. I hear of some guys that have over 1000 packages installed. That must be a nightmare especially with packages that make heavy use of the portageq command. -- Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
