Pacman Stalling

Kenetixx · 2007-05-31 14:13:18

Updated Pacman today and now while it looks for servers and dependencies it stalls, sometimes upto abotu 1 minute before it does anything? Was ok till upgrade.

Kenetixx · 2007-05-31 20:40:58

After a bit of reading it seeems it may be that i am trying xfs file system as i have always used reiser3, would that be the case?

phrakture · 2007-05-31 20:55:06

It might be related. Just to check... can you run with --debug and see if it is actually outputting anything? XFS might just be poor when it comes to running through a bunch of small files like that.

ataraxia · 2007-05-31 21:05:22

My experience with pacman on XFS is bad. It works, but it thrashes the disk for about a minute (with pdflush sucking up tons of CPU) before actually doing anything. Sometimes it will come before syncing, and sometimes between syncing and updating. Pacman2 was like this also.

Switching this filesystem to ext3 solved all of this.

STiAT · 2007-06-01 11:39:11

Can confirm this, my system with xfs also takes a way longer to step trough the files.

Hey, i just found a pro for a pacman database - that wouldn't happen any longer . *notes down*

Kenetixx · 2007-06-01 14:06:05

Yep seems it was file system, just done a fresh install of arch on new HDD using ext3 and all is well.

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Pacman Stalling

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