yum-presto not on by default

John Reiser jreiser at bitwagon.com
Sun Oct 4 20:51:53 UTC 2009


> Is it possible to do the rebuilds in parallel? I noticed that only one
> of my four cores was used. And that on smolt 63% of people have a
> dual-core or greater, so it could lead to massive speed-ups as well.

The speedup would be noticeably less than the number of cores.
xz uses a history+search table that is significantly larger than dcache.
There is competition for memory bandwidth, not just CPU+cache cycles.

> Would it be possible to have a diff on the filelist db? It seems like
> a very large download for something that would change very little.

Agreed, this would be a 99% savings.

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