Backport "libdpkg: Only preallocate disk size for files bigger than 16 KiB".

Bug #1663749 reported by Vinson Lee
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dpkg
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Xenial
Fix Released
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Yakkety
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Bug Description

Please backport upstream dpkg patch "libdpkg: Only preallocate disk size for files bigger than 16 KiB" to xenial, yakkety, and zesty versions of dpkg.

dpkg 1.17.11 commit "dpkg: Try to preallocate the disk size for extracted files" causes installs of packages with many small files to be slow. https://anonscm.debian.org/git/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?id=87b0b20b86407baf1deb4e91b3fd839e01228ac8

This was fixed in dpkg 1.18.15 with "libdpkg: Only preallocate disk size for files bigger than 16 KiB". https://anonscm.debian.org/git/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?id=a971ad91437af8880cad4703695dcf12ee45959b

trusty dpkg is based off 1.17.5 and is not affected. xenial dpkg based off 1.18.4, yakkety dpkg based off 1.18.10, and zesty dpkg based off 1.18.10 need the fix.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in dpkg (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in dpkg:
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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Vinson Lee (vlee) wrote :

Here is a test case than be used to benchmark the performance with and without the fix.

$ wget https://packages.chef.io/files/stable/chefdk/1.1.16/ubuntu/16.04/chefdk_1.1.16-1_amd64.deb
$ time sudo dpkg --install chefdk_1.1.16-1_amd64.deb

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Luke Faraone (lfaraone) wrote :

Triaging as high, because this has a moderate negative performance impact/regression on *all* Ubuntu users, and is adversely impacting at least one substantially large deployment's Xenial rollout. (albeit with a hacky workaround)

Changed in dpkg (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
status: Confirmed → Triaged
tags: added: yakkety zesty
Vinson Lee (vlee)
tags: added: xenial
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Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100) wrote : Please test proposed package

Hello Vinson, or anyone else affected,

Accepted dpkg into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/1.18.4ubuntu1.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Changed in dpkg (Ubuntu Xenial):
status: New → Fix Committed
tags: added: verification-needed
Changed in dpkg (Ubuntu Yakkety):
status: New → Fix Committed
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Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100) wrote :

Hello Vinson, or anyone else affected,

Accepted dpkg into yakkety-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/1.18.10ubuntu1.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package dpkg - 1.18.10ubuntu2

---------------
dpkg (1.18.10ubuntu2) zesty; urgency=medium

  * Cherry-pick patch from git to limit preallocation to files over
    16KiB, fixing installation performance regression (LP: #1663749)

 -- Adam Conrad <email address hidden> Mon, 10 Apr 2017 04:08:19 -0600

Changed in dpkg (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100) wrote :

I was asked to test this bug on a slower non-SSD disk. Checked zesty, yakkety and xenial. The detailed test result:

zesty:
- 1.18.10ubuntu1:
real 0m39.559s
user 0m7.176s
sys 0m8.780s
- 1.18.10ubuntu2:
real 0m20.273s
user 0m6.096s
sys 0m7.164s

yakkety:
- 1.18.9ubuntu2
real 0m38.154s
user 0m7.008s
sys 0m9.112s
- 1.18.10ubuntu1.1
real 0m24.107s
user 0m6.028s
sys 0m7.116s

xenial:
- 1.18.4ubuntu1
real 0m41.030s
user 0m8.164s
sys 0m8.632s
- 1.18.4ubuntu1.2
real 0m19.263s
user 0m6.792s
sys 0m5.644s

Retried a few times afterwards to make sure the results are reproducible. With this, I consider the bug as verified for both stable releases.

tags: added: verification-done
removed: verification-needed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package dpkg - 1.18.4ubuntu1.2

---------------
dpkg (1.18.4ubuntu1.2) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Cherry-pick patch from git to limit preallocation to files over
    16KiB, fixing installation performance regression (LP: #1663749)

 -- Adam Conrad <email address hidden> Mon, 10 Apr 2017 04:08:19 -0600

Changed in dpkg (Ubuntu Xenial):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote : Update Released

The verification of the Stable Release Update for dpkg has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package dpkg - 1.18.10ubuntu1.1

---------------
dpkg (1.18.10ubuntu1.1) yakkety; urgency=medium

  * Cherry-pick patch from git to limit preallocation to files over
    16KiB, fixing installation performance regression (LP: #1663749)

 -- Adam Conrad <email address hidden> Mon, 10 Apr 2017 04:08:19 -0600

Changed in dpkg (Ubuntu Yakkety):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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