Rediculous amount of IO use when updating packages!

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 17:11 -0400, Kavon Farvardin wrote:
> So I installed Fedora 11 recently on my ThinkPad R61, and had 560+
> packages to update. Installing and cleaning the packages has been taking
> FOREVER. Almost several hours, I've had to stop it so often (and restart
> it with yum-continue-transaction) because it lags my entire system. It's
> all IO use too, the CPU is barely being used!
> 
> I have installed a solid state drive in my laptop and it shouldn't be so
> slow at deleting or cleaning packages, it's doing one every 5 seconds or
> more. Is there some bug with SSDs and yum? (maybe python related as it
> seems yum is written in python?) I have no speed issues with anything
> else, and when I installed this drive it was a huge overall performance
> improvement over my 5400 RPM disk. I'm also using ext4 as it was the
> default, and I think a Logical Volume setup instead of a partition based
> one (again, default settings).
> 
> What should I do?
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at this point, grin and bear it.

I think that more than just install/uninstall, it also runs ld to
link/unlink installed software

let it finish and you will be much happier

Craig


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