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APT-GET performance improvement

By admin on October 14th, 2009

On some network connections (particularly my corporate network), I had this issue when APT-GET was updating the repositories or downloading packages that it just would stand still for a minute or so and continue then.  This would happen after every 100KB or so.  I have found the following settings that improved the performance a lot and the stand still totally disappeared.  Enter the following in a terminal:
sudo gedit /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80http
If the file 80http does not exist then create it.

Add the following lines to the file:

Acquire::http::Pipeline-Depth "0";
Acquire::http::No-Cache "true";
Acquire::http::Max-Age "0";


Save the file and now APT-GET should fly with your updates.

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