On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan <lists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Recently I'm facing a funny problem. pacman (and even packer) is toooo slow > to search -Ss (db+aur) or -Qs (db). I see a lot of HDD activity going on. > But when I run pacman-optimize, it gets fixed. > > This happens at every boot. Any ideas ? I suggest you look this: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=20385 It uses one single file to store all pacman's db tree, mounting it via loop device, so it gets faster than the native filesystem. I use it and the difference is impressive. HTH. -- A: Because it obfuscates the reading. Q: Why is top posting so bad? ------------------------------------------- Denis A. Altoe Falqueto -------------------------------------------
