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pix

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Registered: 2005-07-07

Posts: 25

Pacman suddenty became ultra slow.

I'm using pacman from testing and suddenly, for no understandable reason

:: Synchronizing package databases...
 delta is up to date
 testing is up to date
 current is up to date
 unstable is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies... done.
looking for inter-conflicts... done.

Pacman freeze here for about 20 minutes

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mucknert

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From: Berlin // Germany

Registered: 2006-06-27

Posts: 510

Re: Pacman suddenty became ultra slow.

Is that pacman3?

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pix

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Registered: 2005-07-07

Posts: 25

Re: Pacman suddenty became ultra slow.

No, i've used pacman 3 for about 2 weeks without any problems.
(It were a LOT faster than pacman 2)

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lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: Pacman suddenty became ultra slow.

Err, isn't pacman in testing pacman3?

Is it reproducible? Try running "strace pacman" or "pacman --debug".

stonecrest

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From: Boulder

Registered: 2005-01-22

Posts: 1,190

Re: Pacman suddenty became ultra slow.

I had this happen once because I had a samba share mounted but no access to it.. AFAIR, it happened because pacman3 now checks that you have enough space to install the packages and something like a mounted share that isn't accessible can cause that check to be really slow.

Don't know if you're having the same issue, but I thought I'd throw it out there.

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pix

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Registered: 2005-07-07

Posts: 25

Re: Pacman suddenty became ultra slow.

I had this happen once because I had a samba share mounted but no access to it.. AFAIR, it happened because pacman3 now checks that you have enough space to install the packages and something like a mounted share that isn't accessible can cause that check to be really slow.

Yes, an nfs share blocked pacman from installing. Thanks !

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stonecrest

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From: Boulder

Registered: 2005-01-22

Posts: 1,190

Re: Pacman suddenty became ultra slow.

Glad it helped. I don't know that anything can be done about it, but..
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6976

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