Re: Slow package database
On Friday 30 March 2007 22:25, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Christoph Haas:
> > What might be the cause? Is there some fragmentation effect?
>
> It's probably ext3's directory hashing. It tries to access the files
> in /var/lib/dpkg/info in hash order, which leads to essentially random
> disk I/O.
I think you are right. It's ext3 here. And I just "cp -a" the info
directory and now everything is amazingly fast. Although copying the
directory took half a minute.
Is there anything that I can do about it? Tuning the ext3 partition? Or is
somebody capable of turning the info directory into - say - an sqlite
database or in future Debian releases?
Cheers
Christoph
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