-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Craig Millar wrote:
I've been trying out smart in anticipation of the future changeover. All in
Great :)
all I've been impressed with it's depdendency resolving capabilities, especially the fact it can downgrade packages to resolve dependecy woes - something that would've been very useful on one of the debian boxen I look after at work.
smart also works with dpkg on Debian distros
However, I do find that it does freeze from time to time when installing multiple packages - just no activity. Using top I can see it's still in memory, but not using any cpu cycles - I've had to kill it manually and it seems to resume ok. I've been unable to consistently reproduce the error, except to say that it does occure on both my work and home computers. Any idea why this would be?
Hmm... waiting for network reply packets ? The TCP timeout is configurable: smart config --set socket-timeout=30 (in seconds)
A problem I'm having at present with it is and running an upgrade on the smart package itself - although this is possibly an incomplete syncing on ftp.gwdg.de The error has been occuring for 7/8 hours now though: ... Upgrading packages (1): smart-0.40-8.guru.suse100@i686 ... Fetching packages... -> http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/10.0-i386/RPMS.suser-guru/smart-0... smart-0.40-8.guru.suse100.i686.rpm [ 0%] error: Failed to download packages: error:http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/10.0-i386/RPMS.suser-guru/smart-0...: Not Found
Try to add mirror sites: smart mirror --add http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt smart mirror --add http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt ftp://ftp4.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt smart mirror --add http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt \ http://mirrors.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de/pub/linux/suse/apt
hmmm.. How long does a typical sync take?
It's not about synching, as ftp.gwdg.de is the master for generating the apt repository metadata (actually ftp4.gwdg.de is, but synching from there to ftp.gwdg.de should be quite in time). Hmm.. dunno... try with the mirrors as above. After running into a timeout or not finding a file, smart will automatically switch to another mirror. It will also record the average download speed for every package and use the fastest mirrors, depending on that information.
Finally, I've been following the discussions on smart's performance with interest, especially as it is killer slow on my home machine which is a cobbled together 800MHz piece of crap from work - in time, I'll try and tune
How much memory do you have in that box ?
it according to the advice available. The docs are short though! I'd be happy
smart config --set disk-cache=no If you want to revert back to the original behaviour (which is to use the memory cache): smart config --remove disk-cache
to help out if someone pointed me in the right direction. At this stage I guess that'd mean looking at the source code?
Mostly, yes.
But there's the FAQ and the README as well.
cheers
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-o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/
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