About "time yum --help".

[John Swartzentruber]

On 1/12/2005 12:43 PM Vinicius wrote:
> Mogens Kjaer escreveu:
> 
>> Vinicius wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> time yum --help takes:
>>> real    0m7.125s
>>> user    0m0.404s
>>> sys     0m0.039s
>>>
>>> rpm -q yum: yum-2.1.12-0.fc3
>>>
>>> Why, please?
>>
>>
>>
>> You can do a:
>>
>> strace -t -o/tmp/yum.log yum --help
>>
>> and look in the /tmp/yum.log file where
>> the bottleneck is.
>>
>> Mogens
>>
> 
> I see several lines as "open("/usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload/yum.so", 
> O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)" for example.
> 
> Is it relevant?

In my output, what seems more relevant is that it appears to be 
connecting to the mirror and downloading information. That seems wrong 
for a help request (yum --help). Here are the relevant lines:

13:15:11 connect(4, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(80), 
sin_addr=inet_addr("209.132.177.50")}, 16) = 0

13:15:11 send(4, "GET /download/mirrors/updates-te"..., 136, 0) = 136