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

From: Luis Felipe <luis.felipe.la <at> protonmail.com>
To: "44053 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <44053 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Poor profile generation performance on spinning disks
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2020 23:05:10 +0000

I've never used SDDs, so I've been experiencing this since I installed Guix (~5 years ago). And yes, building the profile seems to be the more resource intensive operation. I usually can't do anything else while that happens because the computer becomes unresponsive.

Running the same command Maxim mentioned took the following time in my case:


$ time guix package -i perl --max-jobs=1
Se instalará el siguiente paquete:
   perl 5.30.2
Se construirá la siguiente derivación:
   /gnu/store/86g48nh8dhgdhzb8r9bxjk6mmszlssss-profile.drv
construyendo empaquetado de certificados de CA...
construyendo el directorio de tipografías...
generando la caché de esquemas de GLib...
creando la caché de temas de iconos de GTK+...
construyendo los ficheros de caché para los métodos de entrada de GTK+...
construyendo el directorio de manuales Info...
construyendo la base de datos de páginas de manual...
construyendo la caché de ficheros desktop XDG...
construyendo la base de datos MIME XDG...
construyendo perfil con 87 paquetes...


real    8m3,043s
user    0m2,656s
sys    0m0,239s


My computer:

Intel® Core™ i3-8100 CPU @ 3.60GHz × 4
RAM: 4 GiB
1 TB HDD
This bug report was last modified 44 days ago.

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