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#1 2007-02-02 21:54:09
- TheGrudge
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Everything is faster...?
Hi,
did an update today and some of my apps are really faster.
Pacman took ages when run the first time, but now its 10 times faster.
OO is starting faster.
Anyone else experienced that?
The packages I upgraded:
upgraded bzip2 (1.0.3-2 -> 1.0.4-1)
upgraded faac (1.24-2 -> 1.25-1)
upgraded glibmm (2.12.4-1 -> 2.12.5-1)
upgraded libgpg-error (1.4-1 -> 1.5-1)
upgraded gpgme (1.1.2-2 -> 1.1.3-1)
upgraded libmtp (0.1.0-1 -> 0.1.3-1)
upgraded libxext (1.0.2-1 -> 1.0.3-1)
upgraded libxfont (1.2.6-1 -> 1.2.7-1)
upgraded libxt (1.0.4-1 -> 1.0.5-1)
upgraded pango (1.14.9-1 -> 1.14.10-1)
upgraded sqlite3 (3.3.8-1 -> 3.3.12-1)
upgraded xorg-server-utils (1.0.2-2 -> 1.0.3-1)
upgraded xorg-utils (1.0.1-1 -> 1.0.2-1)
I restarted my laptop and the first thing I did was using pacman: still very fast.
Maybe some of the above libs are responsible for that?
Arch has always been the fastest distro I've ever used, but now... wow!! Although I have full journaling activated for all my ext3 partitions...
Last edited by TheGrudge (2007-02-02 21:54:53)
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#2 2007-02-03 00:56:37
- hongy19
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Re: Everything is faster...?
I have the same feeling:lol:
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#3 2007-02-03 01:52:43
- phrakture
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Re: Everything is faster...?
it's probably pango, if by "all my apps" you mean "all my GUI apps"
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#4 2007-02-03 08:29:59
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Re: Everything is faster...?
All my GUI apps, but also PACMAN... but there was no pacman update in the last 2 weeks... so I guess it must be one of those libs... anyway I like it!!!!!! 
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#5 2007-02-03 08:35:01
- xerverius
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Re: Everything is faster...?
Placebo... They are all bugfix releases.
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#6 2007-02-03 08:39:39
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Re: Everything is faster...?
Can't be... pacman IS faster... I can see it using the "time" command...
For the first search after the system boot pacman took 54 seconds, now it just takes 8 seconds to find an entry in the database.
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#7 2007-02-03 09:12:04
- iphitus
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Re: Everything is faster...?
Can't be... pacman IS faster... I can see it using the "time" command...
For the first search after the system boot pacman took 54 seconds, now it just takes 8 seconds to find an entry in the database.
because it's cached. a majority of that database is in caches in ram. if you want a proper test, do a clean boot.
A quick cheat though, is to add:
pacman -Ss &> /dev/null &to your rc.local to try and force it into cache.
James
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#8 2007-02-03 09:34:20
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Re: Everything is faster...?
Well of course I did a reboot...
2 days ago pacman took 50 seconds or something like that and now (AFTER a reboot) only 8-10 seconds...
I know that the database is stored in RAM so that it will be faster when using it twice or more...
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