Re: Installing/updating packages are very slow
On 25/10/2014, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> 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
>
>
"
:~# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ftp.au.debian.org squeeze-updates Release.gpg [836 B]
Ign http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates/main
Translation-en
Ign http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates/main
Translation-en_AU
Get:2 http://ftp.au.debian.org squeeze-updates Release [113 kB]
Hit http://ftp.au.debian.org squeeze-updates/main amd64
Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://deb.opera.com stable Release.gpg
Ign http://deb.opera.com/opera/ stable/non-free Translation-en
Ign http://deb.opera.com/opera/ stable/non-free Translation-en_AU
Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release.gpg
Ign http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main Translation-en
Ign http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main Translation-en_AU
Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release
Hit http://deb.opera.com stable Release
Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main amd64 Packages
Ign http://deb.opera.com stable/non-free amd64 Packages
Hit http://deb.opera.com stable/non-free amd64 Packages
Get:3 http://ftp.de.debian.org squeeze-lts Release.gpg [836 B]
Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-lts/contrib
Translation-en
Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-lts/contrib
Translation-en_AU
Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-lts/main Translation-en
Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-lts/main
Translation-en_AU
Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-lts/non-free
Translation-en
Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-lts/non-free
Translation-en_AU
Get:4 http://ftp.de.debian.org squeeze-lts Release [28.7 kB]
Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org squeeze-lts/main Sources/DiffIndex
Get:5 http://ftp.de.debian.org squeeze-lts/contrib Sources [14 B]
Get:6 http://ftp.de.debian.org squeeze-lts/non-free Sources [14 B]
Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org squeeze-lts/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex
Get:7 http://ftp.de.debian.org squeeze-lts/contrib amd64 Packages [14
B]
Get:8 http://ftp.de.debian.org squeeze-lts/non-free amd64 Packages [14
B]
Fetched 144 kB in 7s (18.0 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
N: Ignoring file 'opera.list.save' in directory
'/etc/apt/sources.list.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension
"
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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