[pacman-dev] pacman -Qs first-run performance

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Philipp Überbacher
<hollunder at lavabit.com> wrote:
> Excerpts from Dan McGee's message of 2011-09-01 20:17:47 +0200:
>> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto
>> <denisfalqueto at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Philipp Überbacher <hollunder at 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?
>
> It simply arose because it searches for packages that aren't necessarily
> installed. If it only searches everything it knows from the last 'y'
> that's fine too.
>
>> > 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
>
> I ran ncdu anyway, local has 42MiB, sync 1.2MiB. The more interesting
> numbers are: Items: 4606.
> I don't know whether Items includes directories. sync accounts for 6
> files, so from the file structure I assume I have either about 1500 or
> 2300 packages installed, but there's probably a better way to find out.
>
> Regards,
> Philipp
>
>
>

'pacman -Qq | wc -l' will tell you how many packages have you installed.
My sync is 1.3 MB, local 8.1 MB, 1375 items.