* Morten Hustveit: > When running dpkg from a cold cache on a system where > /var/lib/dpkg/info/ lies on a harddisk, a lot of time is spent > waiting for seeks between (typically) thousands of files. This > patch ensures that the package iterator used by > ensure_allinstfiles_available returns the packages sorted by their > .list file's physical location on the harddisk, greatly reducing > drive head movements.
Have you tried using readdir() and sorting by the d_ino field? That should be even faster for ext3 because you hit the inode in disk order. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
