`snap refresh` doesn't show progress when checking for a large number of snaps

[Jorge Castro]

I have over 50 snaps now installed, doing a `snap refresh` now takes a long time to return a prompt, during this time it's non-obvious that snapd is doing anything, perhaps an indication that snapd is doing a remote request?

[John Lenton (chipaca)]

`snap refresh` speed should be mostly independent of number of installed snaps (there are components of the time that are linearly proportional to the number, but most of the times should be independent of it). When there is an update you get the progress bar so I'm assuming you're not talking about the time spent because of an update being there.

What snapd version are you using? Could you enable debug in snapd, run a refresh, and show me the logs?

[John Lenton (chipaca)]

Just to be clear:

 $ snap list | wc -l
 51
 $ time snap refresh
 All snaps up to date.

 real 0m3.953s
 user 0m0.008s
 sys 0m0.008s

is this the "long time" you're talking about?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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