When using HaikuPorts to install a large number of software, haiku start slow, how to solve?

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When using HaikuPorts to install a lot of software, I found that Launch_daemon will be much slower, why ? an how to solve?

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Haikuports or HaikuDepot do you meant?

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I mean HaikuPorts is HaikuPorts repo

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You mean that if you install a lot of packages, the system is slower to boot?

I believe the packages are mounted (decompressed also) on boot by Launch Daemon, but I haven’t experienced any slowdown, unless you have installed thousands or something? How many packages did you install through HaikuDepot?

Chris

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Yes,I installed dozens of software based on QT and KDE ,feel the system is slower to boot.

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Interesting… How much your system has RAM? what a CPU you have? wich type of Hard Drive you have?

I think this is caused by that that packages must be unzipped to RAM before they can be used. And yes, if you have a lots of them and slower in some part or in all system, it is noticeable. This is one of drawbacks of this package system implementation, with anoter — virtual file system for them. How I said in another talk, this is outdated technical implementation for old computers (with small and slow hard drives). I think there is no need for aditional virtual file system for packages and no need to zip them in the system.

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The computer I install using haiku is the ThinkPad R61,cpu:intel PM965 ram:1g,Hard Drive 80G 。

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I does not know if the problem is fixed with stored changed packages in administrative folder?

http://old.besly.de/menu/search/archiv/pref/avoid-longer-boot-times_eng.html

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This is a known old bug https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/12498

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Thanks Diver, i does not found the link