On 05/10/06 06:22, gareth wrote: > On Wed 2006-05-10 (09:31), gareth wrote: >> hey guys, i've been having this trouble on and off for >> quite awhile, sometimes while running 'portsdb -Uu' >> (after a cvsup) the box just freezes, along with the >> power? i'm running 5.3-RELEASE. > > ok, i did: > > cd /usr/ports > rm INDEX* > make fetchindex > > amongst other things, and every time, running 'portsdb -Uu' > cripples the machine. i'm not too keen to see where exactly > it dies since it'll result in another hard shutdown.
You are probably experiencing some of the VFS limitations in 5.3 (you'll be pleasantly surprised by 6.1!). "portsdb -Uu" is very CPU and IO intensive; it takes a long time on a fast machine. "make fetchindex" is provided as a replacement for having to run "portsdb -Uu". The only downside is that the downloaded INDEX-5.db may be a few hours out of date. > but, if i just run portversion, it creates the INDEX-5.db, > so i'm not sure why i'm running 'portsdb -Uu' in the first > place? I would highly recommend checking out portsnap; it builds an up-to-date INDEX-5.db file automatically as part of the update process. -Jonathan -- Jonathan Noack | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195
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