On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 11:19:45PM +0100, Benoît wrote: > Package: popularity-contest > Version: 1.67 > Severity: minor > Tags: patch > > Dear Maintainer, > > For each installed packages, popcon globs the complete list of files > in /var/lib/dpkg/info. > This is very slow as I noticed that popcon takes more than a minute of CPU > time on my modest laptop, which is enough to start the fan. > > I'm attaching a patch that lists only once /var/lib/dpkg/info and associates > each .list file with a package. > > I don't see any difference in /usr/sbin/popularity-contest output. > And the CPU time goes from 1min08s to 0min14s.
Hello Benoît, Thanks for your patch! I tried it and it output warnings for multiarch packages which have both a amd64.list and a i386.list like /var/lib/dpkg/info/gcc-4.8-base:amd64.list /var/lib/dpkg/info/gcc-4.8-base:i386.list I get: Use of uninitialized value $_ in open at ./popularity-contest line 146, <PACKAGES> line 285. Do you understand what happen ? Cheers, -- Bill. <[email protected]> Imagine a large red swirl here.
