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Startup time is too long (most of the time) #356

Closed KSXGitHub closed 6 years ago

KSXGitHub commented 6 years ago

It goes like this:

  1. User clicks 'Add/Remove Packages' from app menu
  2. Transparent window appear for a while
  3. Pamac window finally become visible, but unresponsive (for a while), no packages appear in the list
  4. GNOME Shell tells me that the app is not responding and ask me to 'Force Quit' to continue to 'Wait'
  5. Package list finally appears, the app stop being unresponsive, I can now use pamac
philmmanjaro commented 6 years ago

@guinux: maybe we should load the app first and then try to sync DBs and other tasks ...

KSXGitHub commented 6 years ago

@philmmanjaro Syncing DB takes time, especially in machine with over 200 packages, it takes a really long time. IMHO, pamac shouldn't sync DB unless user decide to.

Meanwhile, pacman -Q/pacman -Ss list everything almost instantly.

guinux commented 6 years ago

Pamac can takes some times to start but only the first time you launch it and if pamac-tray didn't check updates yet (or was not started). It's due to libalpm which takes some time to load the databases in memory the first time you access them. If you disable pamac-tray at startup, reboot then run pacman -Su, it will takes some time. The next call of pacman will be fast, it's exaclty the same thing with pamac.

lots0logs commented 6 years ago

@guinux Actually it's not the same. I reported this issue previously and it still exists today. Pamac always downloads the files databases no matter what. That is what takes so much time. Pacman does not do that. Pacman only downloads the regular databases when performing system updates.

guinux commented 6 years ago

@lots0logs: Databases are not refreshed at startup so it's not related.

lots0logs commented 6 years ago

Sorry I just saw that you mentioned running pacman -Su so I thought this was about opening the updates tab. I was in a hurry earlier and didn't read the entire thread :sweat_smile:

philmmanjaro commented 6 years ago

@guinux: can we somehow transfer some of the function to the daemon so we speed up the lauch of pamac in general?