'sort' tool is eating my system ressources

[Aurelien Nephtali]

Thanks :) It fixed the problem!

On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 09:32:52AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 10:17:19AM +0200, Aurelien Nephtali wrote:
> 
> > 	Each time I launch a 'portupgrade -ak', it takes ~5min to start
> > 	upgrading, eats totally my RAM and ~130Mo of swap...
> > 	Doing a 'top' shows 5-6 occurences of 'sort', each one eating ~26Mo!!
> > 	I can remember that before the 'sort' import, everything was fine!
> > 	Somebody knows why ? or experienced that ?
> 
> Sounds like portupgrade is building an INDEX file.  You'll see a
> message about running 'portsdb -Uu' if it is.  What you've seen is
> pretty much the expected impact I'd expect from doing that.
> 
> You should be able to download a recently build INDEX file by running
> 
>     # make fetchindex
> 
> before starting your portupgrade -- it's about 6Mb.  After doing that
> portupgrade will only need to run 'portsdb -u' which is a lot lighter
> weight.
> 
> Although if your system can build the INDEX file in 5 minutes, you
> might as well let it do that.  Takes more like 20 minutes on my
> machine.
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
> 
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