Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.11-1 Severity: important Hi!
With «Acquire::GzipIndexes "true";», and after having updated the apt cache so that there are compressed files under /var/lib/apt/lists/, aptitude becomes extremely slugish, and browsing the packages is really slow. Attaching with strace on the running aptitude, reveals that every time you change line to a new package entry, it tries to open the Packages and Translation files, but they are compressed, so I assume it cannot parse them or similar, and tries again every time. This is I/O intensive, and makes it unresponsive (and wasteful :). Not sure if this is a problem in aptitude, or in libapt, just filing it here to not forget about it. Thanks, Guillem _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
