Re: Load on master.
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
>
> > > 14639 maor 12 0 324 324 276 R 0 1.7 0.5 0:00 md5sum
> > > 14598 maor 7 0 1040 1040 824 S 0 0.3 1.6 0:00 dpkg-scanpac
>
> Yes, it is the archive scripts that run daily that cause this. The scripts
> read every byte of every deb about 3 times which is somethin glike 5G of
> disk traffic..
>
> We are starting to reach the limit of the archive maintiance scripts they
> take on hour or two to run each day now and on mondays you can expect
> about -5- hours for mkcontents to run.
This would presumably be lessened if master had (or had access to) a
database of all current packages (which would be kept up-to-date by
dinstall).
Is this an interesting project? Is anyone else interested? This would
presumably tie-in with a future replacement of dpkg's local text files
with a more efficient format. Ian, Klee, did you have anything in
particular in mind as the way forward there?
I'm thinking in terms of a pgsql based relational structure here...
Jules
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