On Sat 25 Oct 2014 at 11:44:32 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On 23/10/2014, Bob Proulx <[email protected]> wrote: > > Igor Sverkos wrote: > >> As you can see, it is always the "Unpacking" step which is taking all the > >> time. > > > > dpkg has added fsync() calls after all file actions. This > > significantly slows down file operations. Basically it disables the > > file system buffer cache causing it to operate at disk drive speeds. > > This is why unpacking files is quite a bit slow. > > > > Is this why the Update Manager (on Debian 6 LTS) has stopped working? > > When I try to run Update Manager, I end up having to kill it. > > " > Update Manager (as superuser) is not responding. > > You may choose to wait a short while for it to continue or force the > application to quit entirely. > " > > It displays "Downloading list of changes", or something like that, and > then freezes, and, after five minutes or so, with no change, I have to > kill it.
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