[gentoo-user] Portage 50-51% and emerge metadata timings

2005-12-28 Thread Peter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo emerge info Portage 2.0.53 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 i686) = System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 50-51% and emerge metadata timings

2005-12-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 50-51% and emerge metadata timings

2005-12-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 14:16:39 -0500 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | 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,