Re: registry.db getting rather obese (> 600MB) and updates very slow. Anything to do?

2020-06-22 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 22, 2020, at 17:33, Dave Horsfall wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jun 2020, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > >> Another PowerMac 10.5 datapoint, if it is helpful: > > On my MacBook Pro (Sierra), it's > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 62558208 Jun 22 08:09 > /opt/local/var/macports/registry/registry.db > >

Re: registry.db getting rather obese (> 600MB) and updates very slow. Anything to do?

2020-06-22 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Sun, 21 Jun 2020, Jeffrey Walton wrote: Another PowerMac 10.5 datapoint, if it is helpful: On my MacBook Pro (Sierra), it's -rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 62558208 Jun 22 08:09 /opt/local/var/macports/registry/registry.db And yeah, as Ryan noted later I got lotsa ports installed :-) My

Re: registry.db getting rather obese (> 600MB) and updates very slow. Anything to do?

2020-06-22 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 21, 2020, at 13:17, Ken Cunningham wrote: > On one of my systems, 10.5 PPC, things are taking a long time when > uninstalling a port - like 4-5 minutes of heavy tcl interpreter use. > > The registry.db is pretty huge: > > $ ls -la > total 1286264 > drwxr-xr-x 7 root admin