yum-presto not on by default

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Fri Sep 25 03:31:32 UTC 2009



On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Ben Boeckel wrote:

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> Seth Vidal wrote:
>>> Does yum-presto make use of multiple cores when rebuilding the
> RPMs?
>>> (My machines only have one, so I can't tell.)
>>
>> other than the xz compression part I believe most of the time is
>> disk bound, not cpu bound.
>>
>> -sv
>>
>
> The rpmrebuild operation has saturated one of my 3.0GHz Intel Core
> 2 Duo cores for at least a minute on large updates, so my guess is
> that that part is not multithreaded and CPU bound.
>

right, currently - using xz -6 - which is using more cpu.

-sv




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