Re: 'sort' tool is eating my system ressources

From: Aurelien Nephtali (aurelien.nephtali_at_wanadoo.fr)
Date: 07/28/04

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    Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 11:53:56 +0200
To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org

    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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