Why is rpm -qa | grep openoffice.org2 soooo slow?

Lars terraformers at gmx.net
Tue Feb 15 09:48:33 UTC 2005


Rodd Clarkson wrote:

> I repeat... Why is rpm -qa | grep openoffice.org2 soooo slow?
> 
> It eventually turns out some output, but it takes the better part of a
> couple of minutes (very subjective, but I managed to talk to my wife
> about something and then type this email and it still isn't finished, so
> it's a reasonable amount of time.)  Actually a couple of minutes is
> bloody generous.
> 
> After waiting so long i decided to do a real test, so here it is...
> 
> [rodd at localhost database]$ time rpm -qa | grep openoffice.org2
> openoffice.org2-impress-1.9.77-1
> openoffice.org2-core-1.9.77-1
> openoffice.org2-xsltfilter-1.9.77-1
> openoffice.org2-writer-1.9.77-1
> openoffice.org2-graphicfilter-1.9.77-1
> 
> real    6m28.496s
> user    0m3.070s
> sys     0m0.559s
> [rodd at localhost database]$
> 
> 
> 
> Rodd
> 

same here.
"rpm -qa" was a *lot* faster before on this system.
this is with latest rawhide and ooo2 (only writer & core installed)
on an nforce2 2.1ghz athlon xp with 1gig ram.

time rpm -qa | grep openoffice.org2
openoffice.org2-writer-1.9.77-1
openoffice.org2-core-1.9.77-1

real    1m51.435s
user    0m0.802s
sys     0m0.062s

really strange.

cheers
        lars





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