Re: portage performance
Azi <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.gentoo.performance |
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Bart Van Kerkhove wrote: >Try emerging esearch > >emerge esearch >eupdatedb >esearch <packagename> > >FrostFire > > > >>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 >> >> >> >> >here's a little tip for you guys wanting to speed up portage. I found it in the forums, and it works like a charm. > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=153921&highlight=psyco ------ -- [email protected] mailing list