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dpkg package

  1. Bug #601299
  2. Comment #24

Comment 24 for bug 601299

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Abram Hindle (abram-hindle) wrote : Re: maverick btrfs slow install

I don't think it is just btrfs. I am using XFS on top of software raid 1 in Maverick, and if I am doing any disk I/O (e.g. a big copy) dpkg will take a very long time to unpack. Stopping the disk I/O often won't solve the problem (maybe patience will).

I installed Brian Roger's dangerous sync free dpkg and I could install packages with heavy disk I/O without any significant lag or latency. dpkg Unpack would not wait for long periods with D - Uninterruptible sleep status.

* XFS on RAID 1
* dpkg was slow to install during high I/O
* dpkg w/o sync/fsync worked fine
* During the first installation it was also very slow.