>>>>> On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:13:33 +0100, Julien BLACHE <jbla...@debian.org> >>>>> said:
> On our standard-issue workstation with our standard software package > (complete GNOME + KDE + a selection of scientific packages) [1], using > libeatmydata for the instsoft task led to a 50% reduction of the > deployment time. > We went from 45 minutes down to somewhere around 22-25 minutes. Hi folks, I also did some tests with eatmydata. This really improves the installation time if you use dpkg 1.15.8.5. If you use dpkg 1.15.8.7 from unstable using eatmydata does not help, since the installation time is already fine. On my machine the installation time of 4.2GB of software on an ext4 file on three disks in a software RAID0 system are: Using dpkg 1.15.8.7 and eatmydata 246s. Using dpkg 1.15.8.7 without eatmydata 248s. Using dpkg 1.15.8.5 and eatmydata 251s. Using dpkg 1.15.8.5 without eatmydata 391s. So using dpkg 1.15.8.7 is prefered and I hope it will make it into squeeze. P.S.: The machine has 48GB RAM and is a dual CPU hexa-core machine. -- regards Thomas