Grant Edwards wrote: > Now that the public key stuff is working again (knock on wood), I'm > curious if it's usual for an emerge --sync to take 10-15 minutes > longer than it used due to the "Verifying /usr/portage" step. > > On some systems (with fewer packages installed) it only takes a minute > or less. But, on my "main" desktop system it takes 10-15 minutes every > time. During the verify step, the emerge process is only using about > 5% of the CPU, and my system is running 80% or more idle. >
I haven't timed mine yet but that sounds about like mine here. I'm not sure what the bottleneck is but I have a four core AMD CPU running at 3.2GHz with 16GBs of ram and SATA spinning rust drives. While I'm glad to have the added security measures, it does add a significant amount of time to the update process, the tree not the compile part. We all know the compile part can get big. lol I guess like everything else, we'll just have to get used to it. People will hack a ham sandwich if they can and can get something from it. That would be mustard on mine. Some may like Mayo, which is fine too. ;-) Dale :-) :-)
