On 12/14/05, Justin Krejci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I run "emerge -s whatever" or "emerge sync" or any emerge command > apparently, it usually takes about 1 second to start the command on the AMD64 > system whereas on the Athlon-XP system it usually takes about 10-30 seconds > fore the command to start. What I mean by that is for example
You can try something like: strace -tt -f -o /tmp/strace.out emerge -s tcpdump Then look at /tmp/strace.out and see what kind of system call is being made that is taking so long to complete. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
