On Fri, Mar 30, 2007, Joey Hess wrote: > It can also lead to a kind of "fragmentation", since during an initial > install these files tend to be fairly close together on disk while over > time new files will be scattered about and more seeking needed to read > them all.
Indeed it accounts for some part of the problem; after I cloned and replaced my /var/lib/dpkg/info tree with the copy, the figure dropped from 22 seconds to 15 seconds. I suppose a cache would nevertheless address both problems. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
