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Date:      Thu, 23 Nov 2006 23:02:43 -0800
From:      vehemens <vehemens@verizon.net>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pkgdb 2.2.2 is abysmally slow
Message-ID:  <200611232302.44025.vehemens@verizon.net>

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On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 21:36:53, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> The pkgdb that ships with portupgrade-2.2.2 is orders of magnitude
> slower that that of 2.1.3.3.  On a machine with 472 ports, if I upgrade
> nspr the time to run pkgdb -fF after the upgrade is about ten minutes.
> Prior to upgrading to portupgrade-2.2.2, the same operation took about
> three seconds.  The result is portupgrades slow down to a crawl since
> pkgdb needs to be run between the build completion and the
> uninstall/upgrade portion.

It's really bad with 700+ ports (i.e. xorg modular, gnome ports, and a few 
others sprinked in).

Anybody know what the processing time is for "portupgrade -arRW" as a function 
of the number of ports before and after the last update?



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