On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan <lists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have an OpenVZ VPS running arch. > For some reason pacman is superslow, and I'm not allowed to create/use > loopback devices. > pacman-optimize takes nearly 5 minutes per run, no matter the last run > was just a minute ago. Unhelpful++ * Filesystem * Block device configuration * Total RAM, free -m output * uptime load avg numbers -Dan