Re: A 2025 NewYear present: make dpkg --force-unsafe-io the default?
On Tue, Dec 31, 2024 at 10:32:09AM -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote:
> On my system, which has a Western Digital Black SN850X NVMe (PCIe 4) formatted
> ext4, dpkg runs really fast (and feels like it runs faster than it did a few
> years ago on similar hardware). There has been much talk on this list about
> performance penalties with dpkg’s current configuration, and some requests for
> actual benchmark data showing those performance penalties.
Doing fsyncs to often after tiny writes will also cause write
amplification on the SSD.
I should use eatmydata more often.
Greetings
Marc
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