WelcomeWelcome | FAQFAQ | DownloadsDownloads | WikiWiki

Author Topic: Appsaudit: Why do some functions take so long?  (Read 2033 times)

Offline jur

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 863
    • cycling photo essays
Appsaudit: Why do some functions take so long?
« on: June 03, 2010, 12:47:33 AM »
When doing a check for updates in AppsAudit, the window freezes for a very long time, like 10-20 minutes (although I have never actually timed it). This seems extraordinarily long.

Likewise update dep files is a never-ending wait.

Build reporting database can also take quite long, many many minutes although sometimes it is OK.

The weird thing is, the average internet data speed during these operations is very low, 1kb/s or something like that, according to the gauge I have running on Conky. Conversely, when downloading big apps, download speed can go to 500kB/s. So I have the bandwidth but tc-update is sloooooooow.

Are these observations commonplace?

Seems to me it would be advantageous to have a dep db file that can be downloaded, and compared locally very quickly.

Offline gerald_clark

  • TinyCore Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4254
Re: Appsaudit: Why do some functions take so long?
« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2010, 11:53:51 AM »
I would suspect a DNS problem.
Maybe try a different name server, such as 8.8.8.8.

Offline jur

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 863
    • cycling photo essays
Re: Appsaudit: Why do some functions take so long?
« Reply #2 on: June 03, 2010, 08:11:52 PM »
Where would I apply such an experiment? And how could I confirm a problem? In general, I can ping google.com and it responds in an average of 300ms, down to the 50ms range. Web browsing also seems OK generally, it's just the above 2 or 3 problems I have.

Offline gerald_clark

  • TinyCore Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4254
Re: Appsaudit: Why do some functions take so long?
« Reply #3 on: June 03, 2010, 10:34:35 PM »
Name servers are defined in /etc/resolv.conf.