Hello! On Thursday 20 October 2005 03:26, Richard Fish wrote: > Alex Bennee wrote: > >As my system has become more lived in I've noticed the time taken to > >update the cache at the end of an emerge --sync is getting slower and > >slower. The system will hang around 50% for a long time and thrash the > >crap out of the disks. > > > >Is this just usual behaviour for portage? Is there anyway to flush the > >cache files and start again with a clean emerge --sync? > > Well, you could try this: > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb > > Several people here (including me) are using this without any bad effects. > > You might also consider putting /usr/portage on it's own filesystem. > That would keep the disk accessed confined to a small portion of the > disk. The size should be 1-3G depending upon whether you keep distfiles > and packages on the same filesystem or not.
I do have portage on the separate partition, but this caching process is _DAMN_ slow. I remember times when it was really, really fast. WTF? > > -Richard Best regards, Andrew. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
