Re: Installing/updating packages are very slow
On 23/10/2014, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
> Igor Sverkos wrote:
>> As you can see, it is always the "Unpacking" step which is taking all the
>> time.
>
> dpkg has added fsync() calls after all file actions. This
> significantly slows down file operations. Basically it disables the
> file system buffer cache causing it to operate at disk drive speeds.
> This is why unpacking files is quite a bit slow.
>
Is this why the Update Manager (on Debian 6 LTS) has stopped working?
When I try to run Update Manager, I end up having to kill it.
"
Update Manager (as superuser) is not responding.
You may choose to wait a short while for it to continue or force the
application to quit entirely.
"
It displays "Downloading list of changes", or something like that, and
then freezes, and, after five minutes or so, with no change, I have to
kill it.
Doing a mouseover, on the Update Manager icon in the panel, shows that
"There are 32 updates are available", but, it seems unable to either
find them, or do anything about it.
This has only happened today, after implementing a list of updates
yesterday, I think it was, that included apt stuff.
Now, I can not update the system (Debian 6 LTS)
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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