[OpenIndiana-discuss] Is hipster repo slow for pkg commands

[Aurélien Larcher]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 3:41 PM, Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com> wrote:

> [Note: comments below NOT to be seen as load complaining]
>
> Running pkg update I've noticed that is seems really slow.  Maybe a
> local network mess I've made? or is the repo pretty slow?


> During pkg update (last was Mar 3) I see speed measured in  700-900 k/s
> during
> pkg downloads, shouldn't I be seeing measurments in at least several
> m/s or so?
>

I am on a university network and reach 10M/s.


>
> pkg  search usually seems quite slow too.  I have rebuilt the search
> database or etc but still it usually seems quite slow
>

pkg does not search only for package names but for actions so it is bound
to be slower than tarball-based package management systems.


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