[Solved] Pacman Slow

Mrk3004 · 2012-10-22 23:09:03

Hello friends,

Since i started to mount some network shares under /mnt, pacman is a horrible slow when installing packages.

"checking file conflicts" takes many minutes to finish. The slowness disappears if the network computers are turned off.

I do not know why pacman looking for conflicts in /mnt, and did not find any setting where i could exclude that folder in scan.

Does anyone know anything about this?

Thanks!

Last edited by Mrk3004 (2012-10-23 20:44:12)

Xyne · 2012-10-22 23:36:55

Have you checked for symlinks/mount --binds/etc that might point to /mnt?

You could detect the first with "find -L / -samefile /mnt" or "find / -lname '*/mnt*'. The former will miss symlinks to paths in /mnt while the latter may return symlinks to other things. Check "find"'s man page for better options.
For the mounts I would check mtab and/or /proc/self/mount*.

Sorry if this doesn't help. I'm just dumping some ideas until better ones come along.

Allan · 2012-10-22 23:42:41

This will be fixed in pacman-4.1

Trilby · 2012-10-22 23:44:04

So ... in other words ... Allan broke it.

Allan · 2012-10-22 23:44:46

No... I blame falconindy.

falconindy · 2012-10-22 23:53:37

You're confusing the words "fixed" and "broke" again. You wound me.

Mrk3004 · 2012-10-23 20:52:16

Thanks for info

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[Solved] Pacman Slow

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