Apparently, though unproven, at 14:27 on Wednesday 01 December 2010, Peter Humphrey did opine thusly:
> On Monday 29 November 2010 10:58:10 I wrote: > > ... it'll be tomorrow before I have any emerging to do ... > > Well, what strange results. Desktop responsiveness is drastically > improved. On the other hand: > > $ time (sudo emerge --sync) > [...] > real 10m3.185s > user 0m6.331s > sys 0m0.575s > > This is with a Gentoo rsync server on the same LAN segment. A P4 box on > the same segment recorded about 65s for the same command - nearly 10 > times as fast. > > On this box, calculating dependencies took about another 10 minutes, > though I couldn't time it accurately because it's only part of a > process. I was watching gkrellm and its display of CPU load while > simultaneously running four instances of BOINC clients (one per core) at > large niceness levels, and in the graphs I couldn't see any sign that > emerge was running at all. I get the same here. Flash and such things run nicely without hogging the rest of the machine, but dependency checking also takes ages. Except that I DO see high cpu usage in gkrell. I assume it's a simple I/O blocking issue as the machine is still quite responsive when it's doing a dep check. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
