[MacPorts] #28257: "port upgrade outdated" causes high notifyd/bash CPU usage and does nothing

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#28257: "port upgrade outdated" causes high notifyd/bash CPU usage and does nothing
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 Reporter:  trojanfoe@…            |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
     Type:  defect                 |      Status:  new                                  
 Priority:  Normal                 |   Milestone:                                       
Component:  ports                  |     Version:  1.9.2                                
 Keywords:                         |        Port:                                       
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 I have been happily using macports for a couple of months now but I am
 currently unable to perform an upgrade.  When I issue "port upgrade
 outdated" it sits there doing nothing, but causes high CPU usage of
 notifyd and bash:


 {{{

 Processes: 59 total, 3 running, 56 sleeping, 273 threads
 23:31:29
 Load Avg: 1.30, 1.25, 1.15  CPU usage: 23.7% user, 5.28% sys, 71.63% idle
 SharedLibs: 7936K resident, 10M data, 0B linkedit.
 MemRegions: 9360 total, 632M resident, 17M private, 342M shared.
 PhysMem: 660M wired, 871M active, 304M inactive, 1835M used, 2131M free.
 VM: 135G vsize, 1042M framework vsize, 1169118(0) pageins, 0(0) pageouts.
 Networks: packets: 25965/11M in, 11761/1901K out.
 Disks: 1643810/14G read, 130267/8236M written.

 PID    COMMAND      %CPU      TIME     #TH  #WQ  #POR #MREG RPRVT  RSHRD
 RSIZE
 11     notifyd      82.5      19:36.43 2/1  0    106  116   85M+   244K
 85M+
 9994   bash         8.9       04:15.60 1    0    17   24    180K   856K
 704K
 3835   top          3.6       00:58.07 1/1  0    30   33    1184K  244K
 1760K
 103    launchd      1.5       00:46.80 2    0    196  63    696K   492K
 1100K
 0      kernel_task  1.4       05:31.58 73/4 0    2    598   26M    0B
 184M

 }}}

 My system: MBP i5 (2.53GHz), Mac OS 10.6.6 (64-bit kernel).

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/28257>
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