Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 19:20:44 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Richard Bradley <rtb27@cam.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating the ports index is slow, but system load is nil Message-ID: <20050302032044.GA95508@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200503020151.45702.rtb27@cam.ac.uk> References: <200503020151.45702.rtb27@cam.ac.uk>
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--nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:51:45AM +0000, Richard Bradley wrote: > Hi, >=20 > Sometimes (not always) when I do a 'portupgrade', it takes _ages_ to "upd= ate=20 > the ports index", without actually placing any noticeable load on the sys= tem. >=20 > In ports/UPDATING, it says (of make index) "This may take an undesirably = long=20 > time.". That would be fine, *if it were doing any work*. Building the index is disk bound, not CPU bound. If you have slow disks it will take a very long time to build. Fortunately most people don't need to build their own indices, as explained in other emails. Kris --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCJTEMWry0BWjoQKURAnmzAJ9lN+E1VVe12Y6KNLOFbOnZ5ik8qgCfdRO2 Ri5olDcjl/S14g4zGovIsZk= =z9El -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j--
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