Re: [PATCH, RFC] stop neutering DRI

[John Summerfield <debian herakles homelinux org>]

Tracy R Reed wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
> > Isn't Anaconda big enough and slow enough yet? Last time I did an 
> > upgrade (as compared with an install) it ran for a good 12 hours.
>
> You really think anaconda itself chews up significant cpu time? If your 
> upgrade took 12 hours I really doubt it was spending all that time 
> crunching on anaconda. Disk or network IO is always the big slowdown.

No, not CPU. Anaconda and its associates seem to take a lot of RAM 
though, and that leads to excessive disk thrashing.

The computer concerned was doing a fine job of running FC3. After the 
upgrade, I felt obliged to add RAM.

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Cheers
John

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