> On Oct 20, 2014, at 3:50 PM, James Berry <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Oct 20, 2014, at 3:27 AM, Clemens Lang <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> ----- On 20 Oct, 2014, at 08:18, Lawrence Velázquez [email protected] 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Oct 20, 2014, at 1:22 AM, Leo Singer <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I found that the "Updating database of binaries" step of installing a port
>>>> became very slow after I upgraded to Yosemite (i.e., takes many minutes on 
>>>> an
>>>> SSD). I am just starting to install my ports again after uninstalling all 
>>>> of
>>>> them, so if this operation scales with the number of ports it should be 
>>>> even
>>>> faster than usual right now. Has anyone else experienced this?
>>> 
>>> I've been seeing this also. Good to hear that I'm not imagining it.
>> 
>> I think our SQLite database isn't performing very will in large transactions
>> (such as this one, or activating boost).
> 
> I just saw this too...
> 
> As a guess, and from a quick look at the code (where I might have missed 
> something), the updates are not wrapped in a SQL  transaction, so the update 
> for each file is triggering an implicit transaction, with a full acid commit 
> and flush to disk, so things are very slow. If this is the case, a 
> transaction should probably be wrapped around either the entire update of 
> binaries, or around smaller sets of them.

And I did miss something, as the updates for “Updating database of binaries” 
are all done inside registry::write, which should mean they’re all in one 
transaction. So much for that theory…


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