On 3/17/06, Thomas T. Veldhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see that portage is updating its cache for about 20 minutes these > days!!! This is on an Athlon 600MHz box with 384MB PC133. > > >>> Updating Portage cache: 50% > > Just trying to do a sync ....
Good question :) But one way to speed this up is to use CDB, so that instead of keeping cache in separate files, it's all in one, resulting in a *much* faster cache update. There are directions here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb HTH -- Bruno Lustosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.lustosa.net/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
