F11 upgrade - worse than Windows

Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it
Tue Jun 23 14:01:41 UTC 2009


Simon Andrews wrote:
> I saw this too (but not for that long).  Going into a shell I saw that
> anaconda was only taking ~2%CPU and that my load averages were low and
> that no significant data was coming in over the network, so I'm not sure
> what is happening over this time.

I may be wrong, but I noticed in a previous upgrade that in that
phase the machine is disk-limited as it is executing a great
quantity of sync() functions, related to the rpm database.

I would really like a simple way to turn the sync() stuff off
when doing an upgrade.
I know I know, it is dangerous and "libeatmydata" etc., but
an upgrade is already considered a risk by me, so I always backup
before upgrading; at that point, I would kick the sync() stuff
out of the way very happily.

Best regards.
-- 
   Roberto Ragusa    mail at robertoragusa.it




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