Re: repository creation

[seth vidal <skvidal phy duke edu>]

On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 16:31 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> seth vidal (skvidal phy duke edu) said: 
> > so you end up with srpms and debuginfo rpms in there.
> > 
> > So you get 2623 pkgs to read through for fc3 base
> > 
> > but if you just read through binary rpms you only have 1653 pkgs to read
> > through. A pretty serious savings, almost 1000 packages.
> 
> What is the amount of time/memory/etc used during reading of this
> extraneous data?

well you're almost doubling the amount of data to read in/sort through.

from what I've seen it goes pretty linearly with the number of nodes.

So figure something like a 1/3rd or half as much time to iterate over
the nodes.

memory size I've not estimated.

-sv