delta rebuild

Joachim Backes joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de
Thu Oct 1 05:30:57 UTC 2009


On 10/01/2009 07:02 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 21:52 -0700, John Poelstra wrote:
>> Every time I see this during a 'yum update' I wonder what it really
>> means or if it is a bug.
>>
>> <delta rebuild>  22% [===     ] 277 kB/s |  50 MB     10:35 ETA
>>
>> Isn't the kB/s being displayed for a CPU activity?  Usually this speed
>> output is associated with the network download speed.  It seems strange
>> to to see it in this context.  Is it really telling us anything useful?
>
> it's a simple way to compare whether the delta RPM thing is saving you
> any time. If that speed is faster than your download speed, it is...

But sometimes it is reduced to some tens of kB/s :-)

>
> (I don't know if that's the reasoning behind displaying it that way, but
> it seems to work that way to me.)
>


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Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>

http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes


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