Ubuntu
software-center package

sudo update-software-center causes excessive stat()ing

Bug #697650 reported by Paul Sladen
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Bug Description

Forwarded from bug #605048.

Running "sudo update-software-center" causes an excessive amount of re-stat()ing for a single translation-related file: it is stat()ing for 'app-install-data.mo' a quarter of a million times during the two-minute run:

  $ time sudo strace update-software-center 2>&1 | grep -c '^stat64.*app-install-data.mo'
  271169

  real 2m1.576s
  user 1m9.032s
  sys 0m49.031s

It is likely that this is indicative of an inefficiency somewhere in the process and that a good deal of the reported 'sys' time is probably spend handling those calls.

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Paul Sladen (sladen)
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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

This looks to be fixed:
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mpt@zephyr:~/hacking/software-center$ time sudo strace update-software-center 2>&1 | grep -c '^stat64.*app-install-data.mo'
[sudo] password for mpt:
[sudo] password for mpt:
0

real 1m47.475s
user 0m33.500s
sys 0m31.550s
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Please reopen if it's still happening for you.

Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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