On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 09:01:12PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Sun, 08 May 2011, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > > Thanks, seems to work fine, I have no error/warning at least.
> > >
> > OK, so you get comparable results. It is very odd that there so much a
> > difference between
> > batch of 1
On Sun, 08 May 2011, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > Thanks, seems to work fine, I have no error/warning at least.
> >
> > batch of 1 pkg: 3m10.789s
> > batch of 2 pkgs: 0m21.769s
> > batch of 3 pkgs: 0m6.362s
> > batch of 4 pkgs: 0m4.763s
> > batch of 5 pkgs: 0m4.714s
> > batch of 10 pkgs: 0m4.670s
> >
On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 06:45:03PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Sat, 07 May 2011, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > Thanks, please find a popularity-contest script that uses dpkg -L by batch.
> > The size of the batch is $dpkg_batch_size at the start of the script.
> >
> > Below are timings on my la
Hi,
On Sat, 07 May 2011, Bill Allombert wrote:
> Thanks, please find a popularity-contest script that uses dpkg -L by batch.
> The size of the batch is $dpkg_batch_size at the start of the script.
>
> Below are timings on my laptop (with a fast solid-state disk):
>
> Direct access : 2.214 s
>
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 11:45:08PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 23:08:51 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:51:57PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > > On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 09:11:59PM +0200, Raphae
Bill Allombert writes:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 09:11:59PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
>> (BTW, popcon is mainly run from cron so interactive performance is not so
>> critical.)
>
> The issue is not interactive performances but waste of system resource. Users
> will complain.
>
> Cheers,
Pl
Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> BTW, don't parse /var/lib/dpkg/status directly either, but use "dpkg-query
> -W -f'${Package} ${Status}\n'".
Indeed, popularity-contest does that already. Have you looked at
/usr/sbin/popularity-contest recently? It's very short.
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On Thu, 21 Apr 2011, Bill Allombert wrote:
> Another issue with 'dpkg-query -L $(list-all-packages)' is that it is not
> portable
> to system with a command-line length limit.
>
> I suppose popcon will have to process packages by chunk of 100, say.
You have "xargs" to solve this problem.
BTW, d
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 04:10:58PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Bill Allombert wrote:
>
> > This is not possible: forking dpkg for all installed packages would be way
> > to slow and
> > resource intensive. We need a better option.
>
> Bonus points if this interface has an option to
On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 23:08:51 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:51:57PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 09:11:59PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > > > You can invoke "dpkg -L" less often by giving
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:51:57PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 09:11:59PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > > On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > > > On my system with 1200 packages (far below the average popcon
On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 09:11:59PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > > On my system with 1200 packages (far below the average popcon submitter),
> > > traditional popcon take 2s. Once patched with the attac
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 09:11:59PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > On my system with 1200 packages (far below the average popcon submitter),
> > traditional popcon take 2s. Once patched with the attached patch to use
> > dpkg -L,
> > it take 30s. S
On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On my system with 1200 packages (far below the average popcon submitter),
> traditional popcon take 2s. Once patched with the attached patch to use dpkg
> -L,
> it take 30s. Slowing down 15 times popcon is not acceptable.
You can invoke "dpkg -L" le
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:06:26PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > > We deliberately skip .list as we don't guarantee that we're always going
> > > to use .list and there's no guaranty that the format of the file won't be
> > > extended to sto
Hi,
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > We deliberately skip .list as we don't guarantee that we're always going
> > to use .list and there's no guaranty that the format of the file won't be
> > extended to store more information. You should not read those files
> > directly.
>
> Hello
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:46:59PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>
> On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > > I get errors from cron because of popcon:
> > > /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest:
> > > popcon: file /var/lib/dpkg/info/liblouis2.list is missing
> > >
> > > That fil
Hi Bill,
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > I get errors from cron because of popcon:
> > /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest:
> > popcon: file /var/lib/dpkg/info/liblouis2.list is missing
> >
> > That file doesn't exist, it's really /var/lib/dpkg/info/liblouis2:i386.list
> > due to th
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