From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: 19832@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19832: Deleting unused links is too slow
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 23:24:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fvadxv4c.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150210192521.GA431@debian> (Andreas Enge's message of "Tue, 10 Feb 2015 20:25:21 +0100")
Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:
> I just compiled a test package and tried a
> "guix gc -d /path/to/package/in/store"
>
> After printing
> deleting `/gnu/store/642pwarg5hppzh1gwadd07w0g4w3rwpx-nss-certs-3.17.3'
> deleting `/gnu/store/trash'
> deleting unused links...
> which is instantaneous, I need to wait for 5 minutes with the disk spinning.
Literally 5 minutes? It would be more like 30s on my SSD.
> I suppose this is a side-effect of deduplication?
That, and the fact that you have a disk that actually spins. ;-)
If you haven’t GC’d in a long time, it’s also likely to take longer.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-10 22:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-10 19:25 bug#19832: Deleting unused links is too slow Andreas Enge
2015-02-10 22:24 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2015-02-11 0:07 ` Andreas Enge
2015-02-12 17:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
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