I did a related benchmark on a Debian unstable system (with dpkg 1.15.8.5 and linux-image-2.6.35-trunk-amd64) and an ext3/4 file system. Here were the results:
This affects my ext3/4 filesystem (ext3 mounted with the ext4 driver, but none of the advanced ext4 features enabled) as well. Iin a cowbuilder chroot (with all of the packages pre-cached by apt-cacher- ng): # time eatmydata apt-get install –no-install-recommends openoffice.org 0 upgraded, 142 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. … real 0m57.682s user 0m37.030s sys 0m7.220s # time apt-get install –no-install-recommends openoffice.org 0 upgraded, 142 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. … real 3m17.158s user 0m37.186s sys 0m11.057s Over three times as long. So maybe you're getting a double hit with btrfs, but the first hit that dpkg is giving you on *any* filesystem is pretty bad to begin with. -- maverick btrfs slow install https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/601299 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs