apt-cacher - slow response

Luke Militello luke at digitalenigma.net
Mon Nov 3 12:28:25 UTC 2008


After searching the forums and coming up empty handed, I'm hoping 
someone here can help me out.  I recently installed apt-cacher and 
although it seems to be working just find, it takes anywhere from 30 
seconds to 1 minute 20 seconds for apt-get to run its update with the 
sources.list directed to my cacher.  I only have 11 repositories in 
there (deb & deb-src).  What confuses me is if I point the sources 
directly to the actual repositories, the update takes 15 seconds max. 
It perplexes me that the cacher is slower in response then the actual 
repositories.  And all this occurs with no updates to commit after I run 
an upgrade.  I know the cacher works because I got a kernel 
update/upgrade through it once just fine.  Can anyone aid me in speeding 
up my apt-cacher?  I will provide any info needed.

Thanks,
-Luke




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