On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Philipp Überbacher <[email protected]> > wrote: >> It's really kind of weird that the web search takes longer than the >> local search, intuition dictates it should be the other way around. > > It is not a web search, though. -Ss searches in /var/lib/pacman/sync > and -Qs searches in /var/lib/pacman/local. Yes, this is definitely not a web search, I'm not sure where that idea came from? Is our documentation unclear?
> Both are limited by the > same I/O bus. Theoretically, you'll have less packages installed than > not installed, so the size of /var/lib/pacman/local should be smaller > than /var/lib/pacman/sync. Could you compare the sizes of those two > directories? This won't really be indicative of anything- the sync databases are both single-file and compressed, meaning there is no 4K filesystem block rounding per file and text compresses well, among other things. More useful numbers would be a lot of the commands I dropped in my last email. -Dan
