apt-cacher - slow response

[Luke Militello]

Well, I ended up just giving up and removed it.  Turns out this thing 
wasn't doing anything like it was supposed to after all.  I pointed my 
servers back to the archive repos and had slue of updates waiting.  This 
thing did nothing but waste my time.  I'd advise others to look 
elsewhere for a caching / proxy solution.

Luke Militello wrote:
> 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 fine, 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
>