GNU bug report logs - #44053
Poor profile generation performance on spinning disks

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2020 03:37:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #78 received at 44053 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Luis Felipe <luis.felipe.la <at> protonmail.com>
Cc: 44053 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jbranso <at> dismail.de
Subject: Re: Poor profile generation performance on spinning disks
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2023 11:19:56 +0200

Hi Luis,

Luis Felipe <luis.felipe.la <at> protonmail.com> skribis:

> I still use the same computer with the same hard drive, and performance has improved when installing packages. Running
>
>   $ time guix package -i perl --max-jobs=1
>
> initially took
>
>   (87 packages in profile)
>   real    8m3,043s
>   user    0m2,656s
>   sys    0m0,239s
>
> But now (guix 17fadbb), it takes
>
>   (96 packages in profile)
>   real	3m51,058s
>   user	0m7,490s
>   sys	0m0,788s

I think it’s not good.

Could you time just profile generation itself?

To do that, you need to find the profile generation and then to rebuild
it, along these lines:

  DRV=$(guix gc --derivers $(readlink -f ~/.guix-profile))
  time guix build --check $DRV

The thread contains an analysis of specific sources of slowness, such as
the cost of building the XDG MIME database:

  https://issues.guix.gnu.org/44053

I think we’re not done; we can probably do better by first figuring out
which parts take time (profiling) and then addressing specific issues.

Ludo’.
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