On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 05:41:08PM -0700, Steve Rikli wrote:
> On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 06:32:10PM -0400, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote:
>
> ...
> > Second: make search key=foo in /usr/pkgsrc doesn't work because the box
> > doesn't have the pkgsrc index built. How long can I expect a make index
> > to run and is there anyway to performance tune/optimize this process?
> 
> Haven't tried that yet -- I guess we'll see.  :-)
> ...

JFYI, my own SS20/2x180MHz 'make index' run just finished:

...
Flattening dependencies
Flattening build dependencies
Generating INDEX file
Indexed 5447 packages

real    957m46.918s
user    0m0.000s
sys     32383085m27.138s


That's from a fairly unloaded system though, so YMMV.

cheers,
sr.
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