Hi Marius, no need to CC Guillem privately, the dpkg maintainers are reachable at debian-d...@lists.debian.org. :)
On Wed, 02 Mar 2011, Marius Vollmer wrote: > - Instead, we move all packages that are to be unpacked into > half-installed / reinstreq before touching the first one, and put a > big sync() right before carefully writing /var/lib/dpkg/status. The big sync() doesn't work. It means dpkg never finishes its work on systems with lots of unrelated I/O. We have used that in the past and we had to revert, see commit 5ee4e4e0458088cde1625ddb5a3d736f31a335d3 and the associated bug reports: http://bugs.debian.org/588339 http://bugs.debian.org/595927 http://bugs.debian.org/600075 Later we completely removed the codepath USE_SYNC_SYNC due to this. Even if you're not using the sync() in the same way that we did, its mere usage makes the whole solution a no-go. Other people have already mentioned --force-unsafe-io as a way to recover some of the performance lost. It does still sync the updates to the internal database (but not the files installed by the packages). We've seen reports of poor performance with btrfs (and that's what you use for Meego IIRC) so you might want to investigate why btrfs is coping so badly with a few fsync() just on the status files. That's my 2cents on this discussion. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110303080011.gg6...@rivendell.home.ouaza.com
