On Friday 30 March 2007 22:25, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Christoph Haas: > > What might be the cause? Is there some fragmentation effect? > > It's probably ext3's directory hashing. It tries to access the files > in /var/lib/dpkg/info in hash order, which leads to essentially random > disk I/O.
I think you are right. It's ext3 here. And I just "cp -a" the info directory and now everything is amazingly fast. Although copying the directory took half a minute. Is there anything that I can do about it? Tuning the ext3 partition? Or is somebody capable of turning the info directory into - say - an sqlite database or in future Debian releases? Cheers Christoph -- ~ ~ ".signature" [Modified] 1 line --100%-- 1,48 All -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
