On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto <denisfalqueto@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Philipp Überbacher <hollunder@lavabit.com> wrote:
It's really kind of weird that the web search takes longer than the local search, intuition dictates it should be the other way around.
It is not a web search, though. -Ss searches in /var/lib/pacman/sync and -Qs searches in /var/lib/pacman/local. Yes, this is definitely not a web search, I'm not sure where that idea came from? Is our documentation unclear?
Both are limited by the same I/O bus. Theoretically, you'll have less packages installed than not installed, so the size of /var/lib/pacman/local should be smaller than /var/lib/pacman/sync. Could you compare the sizes of those two directories? This won't really be indicative of anything- the sync databases are both single-file and compressed, meaning there is no 4K filesystem block rounding per file and text compresses well, among other things. More useful numbers would be a lot of the commands I dropped in my last email.
-Dan