apt-cacher - slow response

[CLIFFORD ILKAY]

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 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.

I've been using apt-cacher with Hardy for about a month. The only time
that it's slow doing an update is when the upstream repository is slow.
I had to set the "path_map" in /etc/apt-cacher/apt-cacher.conf to make
it work. apt-cacher has saved a lot of time and bandwidth for me.
apt-proxy was broken and didn't work.
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Regards,

Clifford Ilkay
Dinamis
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Toronto, ON
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