[Bug 455969] Re: reading database slow since upgrading to karmic

[Angel Guzman Maeso]

This bug should be reopened (I don't have permissions) since upgrading
to raring has the same issue. I even test with new saucy and it get a
poor perfomance. The process "reading database list" is running more
than 5 minutes for me in a quad-core i7 laptop with 20 GB RAM. I think
that it is not a problem with low hardware specs, it is a software
problem. Also It probably needs a pararell implementation version of
dpkg for allow to use all the cores and optimize the perfomance.

In my opinion this should be high or critical priority since install
packages is a common operation and each release we have more packages
and programs installed or available.

Related: 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=69192
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/398870

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #69192
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=69192

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Title:
  reading database slow since upgrading to karmic

Status in “dpkg” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: dpkg

  Ever since I upgraded to karmic, reading database when installing
  takes 10-20 secs where it was almost instantaneous before.  I have
  over 300k files under apt package control.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Oct 19 20:48:57 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  Package: dpkg 1.15.4ubuntu2
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
  SourcePackage: dpkg
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64

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