On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 23:20:19 -0700 (PDT) Joshua Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey Alan, > > I just installed Gentoo on a new machine and just did the first > "emerge sync" and I started fixpages at 9:11 pm and its exactly > 11:11pm and fix packages isn't done yet.. I'm a little mystified as > well. The only thing that I have installed rightnow is KDE and > XFREE.....and that was off the LiveCD via GRP... > > I wish there was a better explantion of fixpackages because its always > been dog slow for me and I can't seem to find any NON-Engineering > explantion of why it spits out some of the things that it does and > what fixpackages is actally doing that needs 2 hrs to do it on fastass > system. Yours is a little beefier than mine but its very compairable. > > I've alwasy gotten this: > Cannot update binary: > Destination exists: > !!! app-admin/gentoolkit-0.1.30 -> app-portage/gentoolkit-0.1.30 > -Unquote > > OK...So what the hell does this mean and what if anything do I need to > do about it because"Fixpackages" doesn't fix crap....I get this same > message no matter how many times that I run it.. > > > --- Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On one of my machines doing a portage update is slow, horribly, > > painfully, slow. The rsync itself is fine, but after that, the > > "updating portage cache" is slow, but if there are any packages to > > move around with the "global updates" (fixpackages) it is amazingly > > slow. Rough calculations gives a minute to two minutes between each > > "*" that indicate some data written on the hard drive. Slow like > > I'm using a 286 to copy gigs of data around. > > > > The update I'm doing right now has taken 10 minutes or more, and > > it's still just updating one package! > > > > My system is no speed demon, but it's not a slouch either. Celeron > > 533, 128mb ram, with the root partition being RAID0, 2 SCSI 2G > > drives attached to an old Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI adapter. > > > > A check of hdparm shows that I'm only getting around 10mb/s transfer > > with the RAID, and individually about 5mb/s, but that is typical I > > think of the fact that it's older hardware, but still... > > > > The rest of the system "feel"s just fine. I can copy a 28mb kernel > > tarball in 3.55s within the same drive, and 3.65 to the IDE drive I > > have in the system for storage. Other portage operations, emerging > > packages etc also feel fine, and in line with the speed of the > > system. > > > > The system itself is a webserver that has apache, postfix, squid, > > samba and not much else running (squid is caching onto the root > > drive BTW). If it was a windows system I'd be checking for adware > > running in the background or defragging my hard drive, but it's ext3 > > :) The system has been up for 60 days, so it hasn't been fscked in a > > while, but based on what I've seen of linux filesystems, it's not a > > defrag issue :) > > > > Any thoughts? Specs and benchmarks below. If anyone can suggest a > > > > way to speed this up, or a suggestion as to why it would be so slow, I would suggest that one of you gentlemen open a bugzilla for this. Go to the gentoo home page, select bugs, register a bugzilla account, read about how to post a bug, and open a new bugzilla for this behavior. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
