On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Bill Allombert wrote: > On my system with 1200 packages (far below the average popcon submitter), > traditional popcon take 2s. Once patched with the attached patch to use dpkg > -L, > it take 30s. Slowing down 15 times popcon is not acceptable.
You can invoke "dpkg -L" less often by giving multiple packages as parameters. Each set of files will be separated by an empty line. This will greatly improve the performance. (BTW, popcon is mainly run from cron so interactive performance is not so critical.) Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
