On Wed 2006-05-10 (11:29), Jonathan Noack wrote: > 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 downside is that the downloaded INDEX-5.db may be a few hours out of date.
it looks like 'make fetchindex' only gets INDEX-5.bz2, then unzips it, then i need to make a INDEX-5.db. anyway, 'portsdb -Uu' may be CPU/IO intensive, but that alone shouldn't be powering down the machine? > > 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. so what is 'portversion' building, that is different to what 'portsdb -Uu' would do? thanx re portsnap, will have a look but can't at the moment. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
