On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 06:29:40PM +0200, Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Marc Haber: > > > The machine in Question is a P3 with 1200 MHz. What's making the > > process slow is the turnaround time for the http requests, as observed > > multiple times in this thread alone. > > Then your setup is very broken. APT performs HTTP pipelining. > > On my machines, I see the behavior Miles described: lots of disk I/O. > Obviously, APT reconstructs every intermediate version of the packages > file. > > The fix is to combine the diffs before applying them, so that you only > need one process the large Packages file once. I happen to have ML > code which does this (including the conversion to a patch > representation which is more amenable to this kind of optimization) > and would be willing to port it to C++, but someone else would need to > deal with the APT integration because I'm not familiar with its > architecture.
You're looking for combinediff in the patchutils package. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
