Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again?

2005-11-02 Thread Norberto Bensa
Hello everyone! Benno Schulenberg wrote: Today the updating of the portage cache was real quick -- something like a minute, instead of the ten minutes it used to take during the past month or so. What has changed? Okay. I'm not sure what you people are talking about here. My box

Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again?

2005-11-02 Thread Dale
Norberto Bensa wrote: Hello everyone! Okay. I'm not sure what you people are talking about here. My box (portage-2.0.53_rc7) takes forever to update cache. What version are you running? I'm running version 2.0.51.22-r3. It has something to do with a file that it gets when it syncs I

[gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again?

2005-11-01 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Today the updating of the portage cache was real quick -- something like a minute, instead of the ten minutes it used to take during the past month or so. What has changed? Was it the r2 to r3 update on glibc-2.3.5? Did I emerge something in the meantime that Portage uses if present but does

Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again?

2005-11-01 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 13:07:06 +0100 Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Today the updating of the portage cache was real quick -- something | like a minute, instead of the ten minutes it used to take during | the past month or so. What has changed? A really really dumb bit of code in

Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again?

2005-11-01 Thread Fernando Meira
On 11/1/05, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today the updating of the portage cache was real quick -- somethinglike a minute, instead of the ten minutes it used to take duringthe past month or so.What has changed?Was it the r2 to r3 update on glibc-2.3.5 ?Did I emerge somethingin the

Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again?

2005-11-01 Thread Dale
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: A really really dumb bit of code in Portage itself was changed. See the gentoo-portage-dev list archives if you want technical details. Is that the same reason it was sticking at 50% or so? If so there is a thread about it on the forums too. I hope that fixed it.

Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again?

2005-11-01 Thread Dale
Fernando Meira wrote: Have you ran some command that caches the portage dir to memory before updating portage cache? That normally speeds up.. but then again, maybe there were changes so that the annoying problem got fixed... Fernando You been running that du -s command to huh? It does

Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again?

2005-11-01 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 06:57:59 -0600 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | A really really dumb bit of code in Portage itself was changed. See | the gentoo-portage-dev list archives if you want technical details. | | Is that the same reason it was sticking at 50% or so? Yup. --

Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again?

2005-11-01 Thread Fernando Meira
On 11/1/05, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote:A really really dumb bit of code in Portage itself was changed. See thegentoo-portage-dev list archives if you want technical details.Is that the same reason it was sticking at 50% or so?If so there is a thread about it on the forums

Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again?

2005-11-01 Thread Fernando Meira
On 11/1/05, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fernando Meira wrote: Have you ran some command that caches the portage dir to memory before updating portage cache? That normally speeds up.. but then again, maybe there were changes so that the annoying problem got fixed... FernandoYou been running that

Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again?

2005-11-01 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 14:21:23 +0100 Fernando Meira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You been running that du -s command to huh? It does work. I really need it on my old 200MHz machine. Would you happen to know what that command does? I read the man page but it didn't help much. I'm learning

Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again?

2005-11-01 Thread Dale
Fernando Meira wrote: Yeah.. I sync'ed portage yesterday and still took forever to finish. Although all the way is slow and painful, the worst part was indeed from 50% to 52%.. these 2% take SOO loong You say that your old 200MHz took 30m? I'd say my laptop took at least 30m

Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again?

2005-11-01 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: A really really dumb bit of code in Portage itself was changed. But the last time I updated portage was three weeks ago. And only today suddenly the cache's updating lost its terrible slowness. See the gentoo-portage-dev list archives if you want technical details.

Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again?

2005-11-01 Thread Ryan L
Dale wrote: Fernando Meira wrote: Have you ran some command that caches the portage dir to memory before updating portage cache? That normally speeds up.. but then again, maybe there were changes so that the annoying problem got fixed... Fernando You been running that du -s command

Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again?

2005-11-01 Thread Dale
Ryan L wrote: What is this 'du -s command' you speak of? If it makes things faster, I have to try it! Since they fixed it, it may not help that much now. But if you still have trouble, du -s /var/cache/edb du -s /usr/portage emerge sync There was a explaination as to what it does earlier

Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again?

2005-11-01 Thread Ryan L
Dale wrote: Ryan L wrote: What is this 'du -s command' you speak of? If it makes things faster, I have to try it! Since they fixed it, it may not help that much now. But if you still have trouble, du -s /var/cache/edb du -s /usr/portage emerge sync There was a

Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again?

2005-11-01 Thread Dale
Ryan L wrote: Yeah, I synced earlier and it took less than a minute. I'll give it a shot in a few days just to see if there is any improvement still though. Thanks. I just done my nightly sync, twice because the first one gave be a boo boo message, and it went so fast that I missed it.