Bug#810898: apt: "apt-get update" (1.2) very slow with compressed indices and debtags

[Vincent Danjean <vdanjean.ml@free.fr>]

Le 13/01/2016 15:00, Vincent Danjean a écrit :
> apt-cache policy apt apt-utils debtags apt-transport-https
> /usr/bin/time sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install -t experimental  apt/experimental apt-transport-https/experimental
> /usr/bin/time sudo apt-get update
> /usr/bin/time sudo apt-get update
> sudo du -h /var/lib/apt/lists
> sudo vi /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50-loc-compressed-indices
> => put the (only) line 'Acquire::GzipIndexes "true";'
> /usr/bin/time sudo apt-get update
> sudo du -h /var/lib/apt/lists
> sudo rm -f /var/lib/apt/lists/*
> /usr/bin/time sudo apt-get update
> /usr/bin/time sudo apt-get update

  I forgot at the end:

vdanjean@eyak:~$ sudo du -h /var/lib/apt/lists
84K	/var/lib/apt/lists/partial
381M	/var/lib/apt/lists

[and, indeed, I've files with .lz4 extension in /var/lib/apt/lists]

vdanjean@eyak:~$ /usr/bin/time sudo debtags update
361.33user 40.07system 6:41.46elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 340932maxresident)k
0inputs+17888outputs (0major+42520minor)pagefaults 0swaps


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