On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 12:38:06PM +0200, Stefan Esser wrote: > On my -CURRENT system with 1572 ports installed, I decided to give > pkg-devel (pkg-1.3.0.b2) a try. > > Using portmaster, I observe very significant increases in the time > required to check which ports to upgrade. With pkg-devel: > > # time portmaster -a > ===>>> Gathering distinfo list for installed ports > > ===>>> Starting check of installed ports for available updates > > ===>>> All ports are up to date > > ===>>> Exiting > > real 13m43.057s (= 823s) > user 0m44.465s > sys 1m20.432s > > The same command with pkg-1.2.7 needs less than 20% of the real > time to run: > > real 2m30.298s (= 150s) > user 0m39.246s > sys 1m11.392s > > It may be too early to expect pkg-1.3 to be optimized for speed, > but I just wanted to report this regression ... > > Since the CPU times are not so different, it appears that the amount > of disk I/O is much higher with pkg-devel. > > It might be possible to optimize the database structure or to cache > larger parts of the package DB in RAM (size is some 100MB on my system). >
This is a regression introduced during b1 -> b2 dev, we are working on it. regards, Bapt
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