update-apt-xapian-index is painfully slow with compressed indexes

Bug #681244 reported by Martin Pitt
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
apt-xapian-index (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: apt-xapian-index

When enabling compressed apt indexes, update-apt-xapian-index takes ages, presumably because it accesses all individual package records from the lists themselves (not just from the binary pkgcache).

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

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 ]
  * 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-apt-xapian-index or synaptic. See
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.tag=apt-compressed-indexes

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Thu, 25 Nov 2010 08:50:37 +0100

Changed in apt-xapian-index (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
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