yum requires a lot of time but not a lot of processor

[cornel panceac]

2008/5/2 cornel panceac <cpanceac at gmail.com>:

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> 2008/5/2 seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org>:
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>> On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 18:09 +0300, cornel panceac wrote:
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>> >
>> > 2008/5/2 seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org>:
>> >         On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 17:58 +0300, cornel panceac wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >         >
>> >         >
>> >         >         > up:Obs Init time: 43.131
>> >         >         > up:simple updates time: 10.574
>> >         >         > up:obs time: 0.155
>> >         >         > up:condense time: 0.000
>> >         >         > updates time: 153.256
>> >         >
>> >         >
>> >         >         What type of system is this? How much ram, etc?
>> >         >
>> >         > pentium 150mhz , 48 megs of ram
>> >         >
>> >
>> >
>> >         Ah ha.
>> >         yes,
>> >         so.
>> >
>> >         Given the machine and the memory available, those numbers look
>> >         pretty
>> >         good, actually.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > :) that's what i thought, only i was wondering what was he doing while
>> > he was sitting there, using ram but not cpu ...
>> >
>> > and yes, it's f5>6>7>8>rawhide.
>>
>> Just for fun (and this will take a while, I think)
>> run:
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>> rpm --rebuilddb
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>> and see if any of the response times get better.
>>
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echo 'n' | yum -y -d3 groupinstall XFCE | grep 'time:'
Config time: 4.050
rpmdb time: 0.005
pkgsack time: 31.438
group time: 33.113
up:Obs Init time: 78.912
up:simple updates time: 9.523
up:obs time: 0.158
up:condense time: 0.000
updates time: 175.059
Depsolve time: 140.220
rpm_check_debug time: 15.349
Transaction Test time: 336.443
Transaction time: 603.418

time rpm --rebuilddb

real    10m14.782s
user    7m35.402s
sys    1m8.705s

time package-cleanup --orphans
Setting up yum
beecrypt-4.1.2-13.i386

real     68m18.519s
user    18m0.579s
sys    22m30.060s

that is after i've installed XFCE and wdm.


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>> ok, thnx a lot
>> i'll do it after the xfce get installed.
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