update-apt-xapian-index is painfully slow with compressed indexes
Bug #681244 reported by
Martin Pitt
This bug affects 3 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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apt-xapian-index (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: apt-xapian-index
When enabling compressed apt indexes, update-
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This gets mitigated by disabling compressed apt index by default again for now. It's easy enough to reenable locally for reproducing the bug, so lowering the severity.
apt (0.8.9ubuntu4) natty; urgency=low
[ Michael Vogt ]
* cmdline/apt-key:
- set timeout of wget for net-update to 90 seconds (thanks to \sh)
[ Martin Pitt ] apt-xapian- index or synaptic. See /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +bugs?field. tag=apt- compressed- indexes
* Revert r1819 and r1820 to disable compressed indexes by default again.
Testing has brought up a few places where this seriously degrades
performance, mostly in applications which iterate through all available
package records, like update-
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-- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Thu, 25 Nov 2010 08:50:37 +0100