Difference in wainting time between update of base/doc/ports tree

[Adam Vande More]

On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 4:27 PM, Yasuhiro KIMURA <yasu at utahime.org> wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I check out head of base/doc/ports repository in one FreeBSD box and
> update them periodically. When I execute 'svn update' in base or doc
> tree update always starts within 10 seconds or so. But when I do it in
> ports tree it typically takes from 5 to 10 minutes and sometimes takes
> more before update begins.
>
> Update is done from one server (https://svn.freebsd.org/) to one
> client (my FreeBSD box). So spec of server, client and/or network
> cannot cause such difference. Then why it happens? Repository size
> or number of committed files affect waiting time of update and result
> in such large differernce? Or some complicated hooks that works at
> update time is implemented in ports repository and its processing time
> results in such a long waiting time?
>
> Please let me know if someone knows about it.
>

It is most likely due to IO.  There are tools to profile processes if you
want empirical verification.

-- 
Adam