Re: Installing/updating packages are very slow
On Sat 25 Oct 2014 at 11:44:32 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> 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.
Please post the output of
apt-get update
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