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Re: [suse-kde] yast install/remove software and kde 3.3
  • From: "C. Richard Matson" <goldfarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 19:43:59 -0700
  • Message-id: <200408311943.59183.goldfarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Tuesday 31 August 2004 7:23 pm, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> Lee,
>
> On Tuesday 31 August 2004 18:39, BandiPat wrote:

>
> I don't really think there's a problem. I have 1636 packages installed
> ("rpm -qa |wc -l") and have two configured installation sources, the
> distribution DVD and an FTP server. I think the latter slows the startup
> process. Also there appears to be a very sizeable effect from in-memory
> caching of disk blocks, because if I run it twice in immediate
> succession, the second launch is much quicker.

I noticed a slowdown when I added a FTP server the the sources. It also seems
to slow down if I have NFS client running to another computer. Rich

> > Lee
>
> Randall Schulz

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C. Richard Matson

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