This bug should be reopened (I don't have permissions) since upgrading to raring has the same issue. I even test with new saucy and it get a poor perfomance. The process "reading database list" is running more than 5 minutes for me in a quad-core i7 laptop with 20 GB RAM. I think that it is not a problem with low hardware specs, it is a software problem. Also It probably needs a pararell implementation version of dpkg for allow to use all the cores and optimize the perfomance.
In my opinion this should be high or critical priority since install packages is a common operation and each release we have more packages and programs installed or available. Related: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=69192 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/398870 ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #69192 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=69192 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/455969 Title: reading database slow since upgrading to karmic To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/455969/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
