Re: yum-presto plugin by default

[drago01 <drago01 gmail com>]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Jeff Spaleta<jspaleta gmail com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Christopher Brown<snecklifter gmail com> wrote:
>> FWIW, I have also experienced zero problems with it and believe it
>> would be better enabled by default, retaining the option to disable.
>> Updates would get done faster and mirrors would be able to cope with
>> more connections, especially in the first push after release day... :)
>
> Only potential side effect is cpu consumption that the delta unpacking
> process requires.  User on single core systems may notice that unless
> presto renices itself down in priority.

Most users are using packagekit so the update process is reniced to 10
and the io prio is set to idle.