Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Re: 7.2 Slow pkg upgrade

On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 11:02 AM Polarian <polarian@polarian.dev> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> There are many different factors which effect the speed of upgrading and
> installing of packages:
>
> - The speed of your network, the slower the speed the longer it will
> take to download the package(s).
> - The speed of the mirrors network, some mirrors can be bombarded with
> downloads, slowing the download speed, and thus taking longer to pull
> the package(s).
> - Slow disk/storage, the slower the storage the longer it takes to write
> the new package to the disk, and also remove the old version of the package.
> - Slow CPU, slower decompression, thus taking longer to install a package.

Maybe I was not clear enough. The problem it is only when it checks
what packages to upgrade (not the download part --- I actually have a
very good connection). From what I understood a new caching mechanism
appeared in 7.2 that should made the upgrade process (at least
checking the packages) faster. In the beginning it was the case, but
now it is the same old speed.

> Thanks,
> --
> Polarian
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