F9beta update takes forever

[John Summerfield]

John Summerfield wrote:
> Or seemingly.
> 
> A while ago I asserted that yum's performance is glacial, in the face of 
> claims it was much improved.
> 
> yum might not be the problem. Here is some evidence. My update of 184 
> packages on an otherwise unloaded HP DC7700 SFF ran from 17:58 to 20:07, 
> a little over two hours. Presumably those are actual install times we're 
> looking at, not time retrieving them across my (wireless) LAN.
> 
> [root at potoroo ~]# rpm -qa --last 2>/dev/null | grep 'Sun Apr  6' | wc -l
> 164
> [root at potoroo ~]# rpm -qa --last 2>/dev/null | grep 'Sun Apr  6' | head -2
> kdeartwork-4.0.3-3.fc9                        Sun Apr  6 20:07:45 2008
> extragear-plasma-4.0.1-5.fc9                  Sun Apr  6 20:07:24 2008
> [root at potoroo ~]# rpm -qa --last 2>/dev/null | grep 'Sun Apr  6' | tail -2
> audit-libs-1.7-3.fc9                          Sun Apr  6 17:58:18 2008
> alsa-lib-1.0.16-3.fc9                         Sun Apr  6 17:58:10 2008
> [root at potoroo ~]#
> 
> Here is my yum.conf: despite the debug level, the information that might 
> be helpful in tuning yum is written only to the console where it scrolls 
> off and is lost; it's not, AFAIK, recorded anywhere safe.
> [main]
> cachedir=/var/cache/yum
> keepcache=1
> debuglevel=3
> logfile=/var/log/yum.log
> exactarch=1
> obsoletes=1
> gpgcheck=1
> plugins=1
> metadata_expire=1800
> installonly_limit=8
> installonlypkgs=kernel*
> #exclude= *.?86
> 
> 
> The machine specs:
> Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU          6300  @ 1.86GHz
> 2 Gbytes RAM
> 320 Gbytes SATA (dual boot)
> [root at potoroo ~]# hdparm -t /dev/sda
> 
> /dev/sda:
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  142 MB in  3.02 seconds =  47.05 MB/sec
> [root at potoroo ~]# hdparm -t /dev/sda{,,}
> 
> /dev/sda:
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  188 MB in  3.06 seconds =  61.46 MB/sec
> 
> /dev/sda:
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  190 MB in  3.01 seconds =  63.09 MB/sec
> 
> /dev/sda:
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  190 MB in  3.01 seconds =  63.17 MB/sec
> [root at potoroo ~]#
> 
> 
> I would expect a fresh install to go faster than this.
> 
> 
Again, so far it's been running for over twelve hours, and showing no 
progress, It's got this far, and stopped:
---> Package totem.x86_64 0:2.23.1-1.fc9 set to be updated 

---> Package fedora-release.noarch 0:8.93-1 set to be updated 

---> Package rhythmbox.x86_64 0:0.11.5-9.fc9 set to be updated 

---> Package bittorrent.noarch 0:4.4.0-6.fc9 set to be updated 

---> Package mlocate.x86_64 0:0.20-1 set to be updated 

---> Package selinux-policy-devel.noarch 0:3.3.1-33.fc9 set to be 
updated 

---> Package gtk2.i386 0:2.12.9-5.fc9 set to be updated 

---> Package nscd.x86_64 0:2.8-1 set to be updated 

---> Package mono-web.x86_64 0:1.9-7.fc9 set to be updated 

---> Package totem-nautilus.x86_64 0:2.23.1-1.fc9 set to be updated 

---> Package lm_sensors.x86_64 0:3.0.1-5.fc9 set to be updated 

---> Package eclipse-ecj.x86_64 1:3.3.2-9.fc9 set to be updated 

---> Package libuser.x86_64 0:0.56.9-1 set to be updated 

---> Package system-config-services.noarch 0:0.99.15-1.fc9 set to be 
updated 

---> Package selinux-policy-targeted.noarch 0:3.3.1-33.fc9 set to be 
updated 

---> Package system-config-network.noarch 0:1.5.6-1.fc9 set to be 
updated 

--> Running transaction check 

---> Package kdepim.x86_64 6:3.5.9-8.fc9 set to be updated 

--> Processing Dependency: xine-lib = 1.1.10.1 for package: 
xine-lib-extras-nonfree 

---> Package kdebase3-pim-ioslaves.x86_64 0:3.5.9-10.fc9 set to be 
updated 

---> Package fedorawaves-kdm-theme.noarch 0:1.1-1.fc9 set to be updated 

[summer at potoroo ~]$

It's using these files:
[summer at potoroo ~]$ sudo lsof -c yum | grep -Ev ' /(usr|lib)' 

COMMAND   PID USER   FD   TYPE             DEVICE      SIZE     NODE 
NAME 

yum     29574 root  cwd    DIR              253,0      4096 58294273 
/root 

yum     29574 root  rtd    DIR              253,0      4096        2 / 

yum     29574 root  mem    REG              253,0     24576  7332989 
/var/lib/rpm/__db.001 

yum     29574 root  mem    REG              253,0   1318912  7332994 
/var/lib/rpm/__db.002 

yum     29574 root  mem    REG              253,0    663552  7332995 
/var/lib/rpm/__db.003 

yum     29574 root    0u   CHR                4,2                509 
/dev/tty2 

yum     29574 root    1u   CHR                4,2                509 
/dev/tty2 

yum     29574 root    2u   CHR                4,2                509 
/dev/tty2 

yum     29574 root    3u  unix 0xffff81000e17a5c0            3805141 
socket 

yum     29574 root    4w   REG              253,0     14966  7308388 
/var/log/yum.log 

yum     29574 root    5ur  REG              253,0  32847872 36503718 
/var/cache/yum/development.Mirror/primary.sqlite 

yum     29574 root    6r   REG              253,0 100597760  7307274 
/var/lib/rpm/Packages 

yum     29574 root    7r   REG              253,0     90112  7307275 
/var/lib/rpm/Name 

yum     29574 root    8r   REG              253,0    659456  7307277 
/var/lib/rpm/Providename 

yum     29574 root    9r   REG              253,0  10887168  7307279 
/var/lib/rpm/Basenames 

yum     29574 root   10r   REG              253,0    905216  7307281 
/var/lib/rpm/Requirename 

[summer at potoroo ~]$ rpm -q yum 

yum-3.2.14-2.fc9.noarch 

[summer at potoroo ~]$ ls -l /var/run/yum.pid ;date
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 2008-04-18 16:08 /var/run/yum.pid
Sat Apr 19 05:00:44 WST 2008
[summer at potoroo ~]$

The repo it's using is on my LAN.


-- 

Cheers
John

-- spambait
1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu  Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu
-- Advice
http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375

You cannot reply off-list:-)