Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 17:21:37 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Volker <volker@vwsoft.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports performance Message-ID: <20070523212137.GA64003@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <4654BC62.5060405@vwsoft.com> References: <4654BC62.5060405@vwsoft.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 11:12:50PM +0100, Volker wrote: > Hi! > > I've lightly followed the ongoing discussion of enhancing the > performance of the ports system. But I'm unable to come to any > conclusion as one gives a patch, another one says it may break > something. > > Just to throw in a few numbers into this discussion: > > 2 weeks ago I took the chance to upgrade a test machine > (Ahtlon64-3400) and the machine was building ports for one or two > days (it was mostly unattended so I'm unable to give correct > values). Starting last sunday, I wanted to update my notebook (the > machine I'm using every day) to the latest ports - including Xorg 7.2. > > I've had to abort port building today. After csup'ing the ports > tree, ~360 (out of ~640) ports needed to be updated. > > As the frustration raised, I watched the machine performance and > figured out, port registration takes up to 12 minutes. Overall port > compilation is not an issue but the management of the ports database > is way too slow. Imagine: around 360 ports, each port takes between > 6 and 12 minutes for registration. Let's calculate each registration > with only 6 minutes (most take more) that's 36 hours just for port > registration (w/o compilation, directory cleaning). > > My notebook is a P4m-1.8GHz, 512 MByte system - shouldn't be too slow. > > So, what's the fast solution for the average desktop to this problem? > > Using top, I've seen ruby18 and pkg_create eat up a lot of cpu time. > Will 'downgrade' portupgrade-devel to portupgrade help on this? > > To fix my notebook, I'm currently building packages on another > system, will delete all Gnome/X7.2 ports and start from scratch. I'm > afraid of the next major update (gnome comes to mind) if ports still > will take that long. > > I will happily try beta testing fixes if they don't break anything. Of course that cannot be guaranteed. Beta testing implies willingness to deal with possible bugs. If you are willing to help, that's great, otherwise you'll have to put up with the slowness while others in the community help. Kris
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20070523212137.GA64003>