Emerge metadata was unacceptably slow on my 2.8GHz i-P4 with 1.25GB RAM, so I came here to see if there was any solutions, and found CDB cache for metadata, in URL stated above. It worked splendidly; it went from half an hour emerge metadata to under a minute. Then, I saw people raving about portage 2.1 pre. I upgraded to Portage 2.1 pre, and emerge metadata was faster than before but took 2 or 3 minutes, much slower than portage 2.0 with cdb cache. Then, I followed instructions to install cdb cache to portage 2.1, and re-ran metadata, and indeed, it went as fast as it did with portage 2.0 with cdb cache. Please consider including cdb cache in portage 2.1. There's no reason to waste time if the computer can go faster. I have not researched reliability issues. Sincerely, Brad Allen
make a file called /etc/portage/modules and put the following lines in it. portdbapi.auxdbmodule = cache.cdb.database eclass_cache.dbmodule = cache.cdb.database Portage 2.1 comes with a built-in cdb module, you just need to turn it on, and no it will not be on by default.
