Updating the ports index is slow, but system load is nil

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:51:45AM +0000, Richard Bradley wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Sometimes (not always) when I do a 'portupgrade', it takes _ages_ to "update 
> the ports index", without actually placing any noticeable load on the system.
> 
> In ports/UPDATING, it says (of make index) "This may take an undesirably long 
> time.". That would be fine, *if it were doing any work*.

Building the index is disk bound, not CPU bound.  If you have slow
disks it will take a very long time to build.  Fortunately most people
don't need to build their own indices, as explained in other emails.

Kris
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