port selfupdate incredibly slow

[Frank Schima]

Running in debug mode should show you where it is getting stuck. 

port -d selfupdate


On Oct 15, 2012, at 9:52 AM, cowwoc <cowwoc at bbs.darktech.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Any update on this?
> 
> "port selfupdate" is still incredibly slow for no obvious reason.
> 
> Gili
> 
> 
> Federico Calboli-2 wrote
>> 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
>>> 
>>> Ok.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> 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
>> 
>> F
>> 
>> 
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>> Federico Calboli
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