I didn't understand why realpath was called on every files of every filelist in query_fileowner : ppath = resolve_path(path); It turns out this is needed for the diverted files. For example, cddb_get installs /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/CDDB_get.pm which actually ends in /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/current/CDDB_get.pm . And for making pacman -Qo /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/current/CDDB_get.pm , realpath has to be called on both the target, and the file in the filelist. However, realpath is costly, and calling it on every single file resulted in a poor -Qo performance. Worst case : pacman -Qo /lib/libz.so.1 0.35s user 1.51s system 99% cpu 1.864 total So I did a little optimization to avoid calling realpath as much as possible: first compare the basename of each file. Result: src/pacman/pacman -Qo /lib/libz.so.1 0.24s user 0.05s system 99% cpu 0.298 total Obviously, the difference will be even bigger at the first run (no fs cache), though it's quite scary on my system : 1.7s vs 40s previously. Signed-off-by: Chantry Xavier <shiningxc@gmail.com> --- src/pacman/query.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/pacman/query.c b/src/pacman/query.c index bb69527..7989756 100644 --- a/src/pacman/query.c +++ b/src/pacman/query.c @@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ static int query_fileowner(alpm_list_t *targets) for(t = targets; t; t = alpm_list_next(t)) { int found = 0; char *filename = alpm_list_getdata(t); + char *bname; char *rpath; struct stat buf; alpm_list_t *i, *j; @@ -88,6 +89,8 @@ static int query_fileowner(alpm_list_t *targets) continue; } + bname = basename(filename); + if(!(rpath = resolve_path(filename))) { fprintf(stderr, _("error: cannot determine real path for '%s': %s\n"), filename, strerror(errno)); @@ -103,6 +106,11 @@ static int query_fileowner(alpm_list_t *targets) snprintf(path, PATH_MAX, "%s%s", alpm_option_get_root(), (const char *)alpm_list_getdata(j)); + /* avoid the costly resolve_path usage if the basenames don't match */ + if(strcmp(basename(path), bname) != 0) { + continue; + } + ppath = resolve_path(path); if(ppath && strcmp(ppath, rpath) == 0) { -- 1.5.3.6