[User.Techlab] ��� du -hs package-cache

5.3M �� ��package-cache

Phil

On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu> wrote:

What is the total size of the package-cache, like du -hs ?
Could it be the same size of the difference in image size ?
That would mean that the contents of the packages themselves is cached in the image...

On 11 Nov 2013, at 10:39, phil@highoctane.be wrote:

> I am experiencing the following while loading my configuration.
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> REPO=http://www.smalltalkhub.com/mc/philippeback/HOWebStack/main
> ./pharo Pharo.image config $REPO ConfigurationOfHOWebStack --install=0.4
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> Everything loads fine.
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> But:
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> with a package-cache/ empty, the final image is: 44.452.060 with a changes file of: 10.831.877
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> with a primed package-cache (meaning, letting the mczs in place and starting with a fresh image), the final image is: 29.480.912 with a changes file of: 10.830.899
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> That's quite a huge difference.
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> I tried again to be sure (fresh image and empty package-cache, then fresh image only) and, weirdly enough, even if the difference in size was the same, the sizes themselves weren't.the same...
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> 44.446.152 - 10.830.899
> 29.986.284 - 10.831.543
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> Maybe that's due to a GC occurring differently between the two.
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> But this gives the impression that one cannot load a base image, apply a configuration, and end up with the same image twice. Weird.
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> Why is this difference so large in the first place ?
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> Phil
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