Re: Installing/updating packages are very slow
On 2014-10-23, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
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> I expect this suggestion to be followed by many people griping that my
> suggestion is unsafe and that the years and years we spent living
> without fsync() were unsafe. But we did. We had at least a decade of
> fast systems in the "before time". And the system was much faster
> then and life was good. Therefore I include the warning that you must
> decide yourself if you agree or disagree with flushing the cache and
> running at hard disk speeds or enabling buffer cache and running at
> ram buffer cache speeds. Personally I use the LD_PRELOAD library for
> everything. YMMV.
>
What about some of the other workarounds/solutions outlined here
(there)?
https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/FAQ#User_Questions
(Q: Why is dpkg so slow when using new filesystems such as btrfs or ext4?)
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