yum very slow

[Richard Hally]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:

>On 5/11/05, Richard Hally <rhally at mindspring.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>Excluding Packages in global exclude list
>>Finished
>>(wait an hour + )
>>Resolving Dependencies
>>--> Populating transaction set with selected packages..
>>
>>During the wait, there is continuous disk activity.  and no network
>>activity.
>>This has been going on for a while (it didn't just start today)
>>I did a yum clean all to see if it would help but it did not.
>>    
>>
>
>that's fascinatingly different than what I'm seeing. How much memory
>do you have.. and how much memory is the yum process using during that
>(wait an hour+)  I'm definitely not experiencing this on my rawhide
>box.
>
>-jef
>
>  
>
Below is some of the output with -d 10 option specified. I may have been 
mistaken when I originally said the wait was while resolving 
dependencies. The long wait occurs immediately *before* the "Resolving 
Dependencies" is printed.  Once the "Resolving Dependencies" is printed, 
the header downloads and the rest of the update continue normally.

--------------------
Excluding dlm-debuginfo - 1.0-0.pre21.8.i386
Excluding dvgrab-debuginfo - 1.7-3.i386
Finished
Excluding Incompatible Archs
Finished
Reading Local RPMDB
Building updates object
putting mozilla-dom-inspector in simple update
putting procps in simple update
putting elfutils in simple update
putting glibc in complex update
putting mod_auth_kerb in simple update
putting sysreport in simple update
putting libwnck in simple update
putting gtk2-devel in simple update
putting php-pear in simple update
putting mozilla-nspr in simple update
putting system-config-printer-gui in simple update
putting php-odbc in simple update
putting postgresql-docs in simple update
putting statserial in simple update
putting php-pgsql in simple update
putting system-config-printer in simple update
putting postgresql-tcl in simple update
putting openssl in complex update
putting elfutils-libelf-devel in simple update
putting postgresql in simple update
putting postgresql-contrib in simple update
putting mozilla in simple update
putting postgresql-devel in simple update
putting vlock in simple update
putting gtk2 in simple update
putting e2fsprogs in simple update
putting bash in simple update
putting mozilla-mail in simple update
putting ORBit2 in simple update
putting fedora-release in simple update
putting php-ncurses in simple update
putting mozilla-js-debugger in simple update
putting lsof in simple update
putting php in simple update
putting procinfo in simple update
putting php-xmlrpc in simple update
putting ORBit2-devel in simple update
putting postgresql-test in simple update
putting mozilla-nspr-devel in simple update
putting php-imap in simple update
putting kernel in complex update
putting php-mysql in simple update
putting elinks in simple update
putting mozilla-devel in simple update
putting postgresql-pl in simple update
putting kernel-doc in simple update
putting php-mbstring in simple update
putting mozilla-nss-devel in simple update
putting system-config-bind in simple update
putting mozilla-nss in simple update
putting php-snmp in simple update
putting libwnck-devel in simple update
putting e2fsprogs-devel in simple update
putting php-gd in simple update
putting postgresql-jdbc in simple update
putting postgresql-server in simple update
putting elfutils-devel in simple update
putting mozilla-chat in simple update
putting kernel in complex update
putting php-devel in simple update
putting postgresql-libs in simple update
putting php-xml in simple update
putting php-ldap in simple update
putting elfutils-libelf in simple update
putting postgresql-python in simple update
processing glibc.i686
processing openssl
processing kernel.i686
processing kernel.i686


(waiting here...)
(then)

Resolving Dependencies

(then the rest of the update)

while the "wait" is happening, here is what top looks like

top - 15:56:04 up  3:23,  3 users,  load average: 2.06, 1.97, 1.24
Tasks: 105 total,   2 running, 103 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  2.7% us,  2.7% sy,  0.0% ni,  0.0% id, 94.0% wa,  0.7% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:    223316k total,   220440k used,     2876k free,      308k buffers
Swap:   458744k total,      860k used,   457884k free,    61788k cached

 PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
3979 root      18   0 32876  23m 6744 D  2.7 10.6   0:23.48 yum
2915 root      15   0 56632  18m 5448 S  1.3  8.3   2:51.02 X
3154 richard   15   0 38200  13m 8624 S  0.7  6.2   0:04.94 gnome-terminal
4118 root      16   0  2028  988  776 R  0.7  0.4   0:00.17 top
3097 richard   16   0 21820 9428 7332 S  0.3  4.2   0:00.52 wnck-applet
   1 root      16   0  1748  560  480 S  0.0  0.3   0:01.85 init
   2 root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
   3 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.22 events/0
   4 root      12  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.02 khelper
   5 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kthread
   7 root      20  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kacpid
  86 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kblockd/0
  89 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khubd
 135 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 pdflush
 136 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.03 pdflush
 138 root      12  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 aio/0
 137 root      15   0     0    0    0 D  0.0  0.0   0:00.05 kswapd0