Control: forcemerge 697724 -1 On Sat, 2014-10-25 at 19:59:14 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > Package: aptitude > Version: 0.6.11-1 > Severity: important
> 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. Just noticed now that this was already reported, sorry about the dupe. Thanks, Guillem _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
