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[seth vidal]

> Seth, that's a useful piece of code for freshening up directories, but
> have you any idea where these RPM utils spend all their time? Any
> librpm app really, either Python or command line, seems to take forever
> sending my load average sky-high, when all it [superficially] has to do
> it read some formatted header from 1000-odd files, which to my mind
> should be the work of seconds.
> 

That's odd. I checked memory and cpu load on my laptop and on a file
server last night when I wrote it. Memory never went about 10M, total
and the load appeared to be entirely io bound.

-sv