On Wednesday 28 December 2005 11:33, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 11:22:07 -0500 Jerry McBride > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | All the gentoo systems that I admin show the same slow down at about > | 51%. I dearly wish we'd get away from a file based database. And > | before everyone jumps on me about the various database backend > | patches that I can apply to get what I cry for... I've tried them... > | None of them put "all the data" into a real database... A shame > | too.... > > Wrong solution. You do realise that the "updating Portage cache" thing > is due to a Portage deficiency,
"Portage deficency"? You mean the fact that python scans some thousands of files in the file based database, writing as it goes? > and that the real cache is centrally generated, right? Yup, from thousands of files in the file based database... Portage is a wonderful tool for package management, but the sheer size of the beast begs for movig it to C and a proper database. I remember in the early days of my gentoo experience that portage wasn't a bother. But as ebuilds are added to portage and my choice of installed ebuilds grows... portage has become quite a slug performance wise. I guess this is where the IT types step in and say it scales poorly. Cheers all and Happy New Year to everyone. Jerry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
