[arch-general] pacman too slow on reboot

[Denis A. Altoé Falqueto]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan <lists at itech7.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Recently I'm facing a funny problem. pacman (and even packer) is toooo slow
> to search -Ss (db+aur) or -Qs (db). I see a lot of HDD activity going on.
> But when I run pacman-optimize, it gets fixed.
>
> This happens at every boot. Any ideas ?

I suggest you look this:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=20385

It uses one single file to store all pacman's db tree, mounting it via
loop device, so it gets faster than the native filesystem. I use it
and the difference is impressive.

HTH.

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