port selfupdate incredibly slow

[Federico Calboli]

On 17 Aug 2011, at 11:25, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> As I wiped my disk and installed Lion from a bootable USB key I made with my copy of Lion (I did this to maximise performance), I had nothing in the way of MacPorts
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> Ok.
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>> All I am saying is, on the same machine the selfupdate step was much faster in SL. I would not know wy that is, but it is a very noticeable difference.
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> What is selfupdate doing when it is slow? If you run verbosely (sudo port -v selfupdate), does it pause or slow down at a particular point?


It pauses for 30 seconds after 

sent 64 bytes  received 636 bytes  280.00 bytes/sec
total size is 512  speedup is 0.73

As I said, in SL this delay at this stage was of a 5 seconds at most. 

Bw

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