Excerpts from Karol Blazewicz's message of 2011-09-01 20:40:52 +0200: > On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Philipp Überbacher > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Excerpts from Dan McGee's message of 2011-09-01 20:17:47 +0200: > >> 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? > > > > It simply arose because it searches for packages that aren't necessarily > > installed. If it only searches everything it knows from the last 'y' > > that's fine too. > > > >> > 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 > > > > I ran ncdu anyway, local has 42MiB, sync 1.2MiB. The more interesting > > numbers are: Items: 4606. > > I don't know whether Items includes directories. sync accounts for 6 > > files, so from the file structure I assume I have either about 1500 or > > 2300 packages installed, but there's probably a better way to find out. > > > > Regards, > > Philipp > > > > > > > > 'pacman -Qq | wc -l' will tell you how many packages have you installed. > My sync is 1.3 MB, local 8.1 MB, 1375 items.
$ pacman -Qq | wc -l 1429 Lots installed, few programs running.
