portage performance
Jesse Guardiani <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.gentoo.performance |
|---|---|
| Organization | WingNET |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hello, First off, sorry if this isn't the right place! I didn't see anything more appropriate though, except perhaps Portage-dev, but I'm not a developer. I'm a FreeBSD user switching to Gentoo for my home system. Linux 2.6 is a LOT more stable than any FreeBSD 5.x-RELEASE kernels right now, and Linux has much better support for Wine and such. One of the most obvious differences between FreeBSD ports and Gentoo Portage is how LONG it takes to search for ports/packages with Portage. I have 525 ports installed on my FreeBSD laptop right now, and probably only half of that installed on the Gentoo machine, but the gentoo machine crunches a lot more doing a --search than the FreeBSD machine does with a pkg_version -vs 'name'. And forget about --searchdesc! That takes ages! Is portage not hash indexed or something? -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net -- [email protected] mailing list