JJDaNiMoTh wrote:
On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 11:35:08 +0100 "Manuel \"ekerazha\" C."<manuel@ekerazha.com> wrote:
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I don't want to troll there, only one suggestion ( then I go to write some code ):
Effectively, pacman needs 40 seconds to perform a search.. using kernel cache is a workaround. Isn't against any law, but using it is equivalent to hide pacman inefficiency.
For the record, I had huge performance issues with my filesystem a while ago. Obviously, this didn't cause slow downs only in pacman, but in most apps I use. Reinstalling my system fixed it. http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2007-October/015751.html However, if you only care about pacman, you could use a separate partition for /var/lib/pacman (or a loopback filesystem).