Subject: Re: make search in pkgsrc
To: Christian Hattemer <chris@heaven.riednet.wh.tu-darmstadt.de>
From: gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/11/2001 15:27:25
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On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 07:11:03PM +0200, Christian Hattemer wrote:
> creating the index on the first run of make search in /usr/pkgsrc took ov=
er
> 5 hours, then I aborted it. Is it normal to take so long? I have a
> Thunderbird/1100, so this isn't a slow machine and the amount of data to
> process shouldn't be that huge.

The speed of the processor is less important than the speed of the
drive. This process is positively I/O bound.

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       ~ g r @ eclipsed.net

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