extremely long "Cleaning" steps for ruby ports

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Dec 25, 2013, at 02:50, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> When uninstalling ruby ports (like rb19-ronn) for example, the
> cleaning step can sometimes take nearly a minute. Is this expected
> (due to some internal database rebuilds for ruby) or does it look more
> like non-optimal code somewhere?

There’s no pre-deactivate or post-deactivate block in rb19-ronn or in the ruby portgroup. On my system it took 5 seconds to uninstall rb19-ronn. I would guess it has to do with the size of your registry database (which would be related to how many ports you have installed and how many files they install), how fragmented it is, and the speed of the disk it’s on. My system has 1743 ports installed and registry.db is 166MiB, but I have a fast SSD. (OS X auto-defragments files, but only those smaller than 20MB.) But if other ports with the same number of files are uninstalling faster, I don’t know why ruby ports particularly would be uninstalling slowly for you.