Pacman parallelization but largest first

fozid · 2025-04-16 06:49:57

Is it possible to have pacmans parallelization to sort the packages by largest first instead of alphabetically?

When doing a full upgrade, I tend to be stuck waiting for large packages to finish downloading. But things like

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only start after most other items have been downloaded. If it started first along with other large items, then everything would finish way quicker.

Allan · 2025-04-16 07:11:37

It does sort by largest first....

fozid · 2025-04-16 07:51:47

Allan wrote:

It does sort by largest first....

Mine seems to sort alphabetically ? it defo starts with packages starting with 'a'

gromit · 2025-04-16 08:12:01

@fozid do you actually have parallelization turned on? Please post the output of "pacman-conf | grep -i Parallel"

Allan · 2025-04-16 08:15:10

Pacman has downloaded largest first for three years:
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pac … b05fffd6bd

I'd need to see a recording of what pacman is doing to investigate.

fozid · 2025-04-16 08:35:29

gromit wrote:

@fozid do you actually have parallelization turned on? Please post the output of "pacman-conf | grep -i Parallel"

yep, the fact I asked about changing the order as opposed to making it function should answer that, but for the sake of clarity;

pacman-conf | grep -i Parallel
ParallelDownloads = 50

fozid · 2025-04-16 08:36:01

Allan wrote:

Pacman has downloaded largest first for three years:
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pac … b05fffd6bd
I'd need to see a recording of what pacman is doing to investigate.

ok, ill try to record it next time i run -Syu

Allan · 2025-04-16 10:16:26

fozid wrote:

pacman-conf | grep -i Parallel
ParallelDownloads = 50

Ah - most of the time, you are downloading less than 50 packages. So you are not seeing the effects of sorting.

gromit · 2025-04-16 10:23:55

I have set it to 6 parallel downloads

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