Speed Up DPKG With TDPKG (Using A Tokyocabinet Or Sqlite3 Database)

Posted by hotice on Mar 17, 2010 2:09 PM EDT
Web Upd8; By Andrew Dickinson
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dpkg is pretty slow in Debian-based systems, usually because of the many files which are stored in the /var/lib/dpkg/info folder. To speed up things, Luca Bruno created a project called tdpkg which uses an sqlite3 or tokyocabinet database for loading the dpkg .list files in the /var/lib/dpkg/info folder which makes dpkg a lot faster.

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