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dalek
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| drescherjm wrote: | | Quote: | | It would seem that something slowly eats up disk space in /usr/portage, but I am not sure how to go about finding out what it is |
Try /usr/portage/distfiles |
Then try eclean-dist to clean it out a bit.
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splun549
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| Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 11:48 pm Post subject: |
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| dalek wrote: | | drescherjm wrote: | | Quote: | | It would seem that something slowly eats up disk space in /usr/portage, but I am not sure how to go about finding out what it is |
Try /usr/portage/distfiles |
Then try eclean-dist to clean it out a bit.
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Whoops, I missed this....
After eclean-dist (which cleared up ~2gigs of files) everything is running smoothly again. Perhaps others in this thread can do the same to speed up the annoying sync slowness at 50%? |
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ozbird
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| Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Sachankara wrote: | | Upgrade to 2.1x is the only working solution to make portage fast as it used to be two years ago. |
I have portage-2.1.2_pre3-r9 installed, and "Updating Portage cache" is s-l-o-w... (I agree that there was an impovement with 2.1, but that advantage seems to have been lost again.) |
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cyberjun
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Hi,
Ozbird is right. I also see this drop in performance. Updating portage cache takes forever. Although it doesn't hog the CPU but it takes atleast 3-4 seconds for increase of each percentage point. When portage 2.1 had just come, speed was much better but not anymore. My portage version is sys-apps/portage-2.1.1-r1 ( and thats stable I think ).
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ferringb
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| Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 3:45 am Post subject: |
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| cyberjun wrote: | Hi,
Ozbird is right. I also see this drop in performance. Updating portage cache takes forever. Although it doesn't hog the CPU but it takes atleast 3-4 seconds for increase of each percentage point. When portage 2.1 had just come, speed was much better but not anymore. My portage version is sys-apps/portage-2.1.1-r1 ( and thats stable I think ).
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If it's not hogging the cpu... then either
1) it's doing redundant IO
2) it's going as fast as it can.
I'm inclined to think #2 tbh, although strace -eopen emerge --sync, and looking through the log for mass redudant accessing of $PORTDIR/metadata/cache and /var/cache/edb/dep/$PORTDIR would be wise.
Running FEATURES=metadata-transfer I assume also, or?
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Currently my emerge --syncs - or rather eix-syncs - are taking around seventeen minutes. Whilst still far better than the hours they took before, this still seems longer than most people have commented on in various other threads.
q complains about my "slow" file system at the end of the emerge and recommends I use a faster file system like reiserfs; I am already using Reiser4 though, and my World file is clean. |
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