Re: [Fink-users] extremely slow 'Scanning dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64' step on 10.13 with HFS

On 10 Nov 2017, at 3:08 pm, Jack Howarth <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Is anyone else on 10.13, booted from a hard drive formatted as a
> HFS volume,observing the following behavior?  I am seeing an extremely
> long delay during the final 'Scanning
> dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64'step after building a package.
> On 10.12, with a hard drive formatted as a HFS volume, this delay is
> only a few seconds but under 10.13, I am seeing a 5-10 minute delay
> during that step in fink.

I am booting (and having fink running from) a SSD that used to be case-sensitive HFS+,
and have seen this at least sporadically as well since updating to 10.13.
Most of the time I didn’t have the patience to wait that long, and after
checking for any perl processes that might have been stuck, killed the
fink process. The command running at the time is something like

sh -c gzip -c > dists\/stable\/main\/binary\-darwin\-x86_64\/Packages\.gz\.6OIbJ

but I could not find out what process might be piping into the gzip here.

I still find that other installs or running ‘fink scanpackages’ afterwards finish without delay,
but even when waiting the 10 minutes, none of the scans ever created a Packages.gz file -
there are only empty Packages.gz.blaBl files.

I also just noticed on investigating a different issue that said filesystem is no longer HFS+,
but has been converted to APFS on the upgrade to 10.13. Seems like this should not be the case for hard disks -
https://malcont.net/2017/09/how-to-upgrade-macos-to-high-sierra-without-filesystem-change-hfs-to-apfs/

but you may want to check your volume as well. No idea if this might be related to the sluggishness.

Cheers,
						Derek


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