I have a system with a 1.33Ghz Athlon-XP with a decently fast IDE hard drive I have a system with a 1.80Ghz AMD64 with a decently fast IDE hard drive
When I run "emerge -s whatever" or "emerge sync" or any emerge command apparently, it usually takes about 1 second to start the command on the AMD64 system whereas on the Athlon-XP system it usually takes about 10-30 seconds fore the command to start. What I mean by that is for example 1. # emerge -s tcpdump (press enter) 2. Searching... spinner 3. output of search the time it takes to get to #2 is 1 or less seconds on the AMD64 and 10-30 seconds on the Athlon-XP. As I said, this seems to be the case for any emerge command on the Athlon-XP system. I seem to recall it not being so slow in the past. Both are on 2.6 kernels and both have pleanty of RAM. Gentoo was was installed on the Athlon-XP about 2 or 3 years ago but it is up to date. Anyone have any ideas? Athlon-XP emerge info: Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1500+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.2.3-r5, 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -funroll-loops -ftracer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env\ /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config\ /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -funroll-loops -ftracer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://128.213.5.34/gentoo/ http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/"; MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X X509 acl adns alsa apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 cddb cdr chroot crypt cups curl dedicated directfb divx4linux dts dvb dvd dvdr dvdread edl eds emboss encode esd ethereal exif expat fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran freetds gd gdbm gif gimp glut gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hpn idn imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 jabber java jpeg junit kde kdeenablefinal kdexdeltas lcms ldap libcaca libg++ libwww mad matroska mhash mikmod mmx mng motif mp3 mpeg mppe-mppc mssql mysql nas ncurses network nls nowin nvidia ogg oggvorbis openal opengl openntpd openssh oss pam pcre pdflib perl png python qt quicktime rdesktop readline real samba scanner sdl sftplogging slang snmp speex spell sse ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb videos vorbis wmf xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
