On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 10:35:22PM -0400, Kevin Valko wrote:
Saw this brilliant post from Marcus Meissner about speeding up the package management stack (link: http://marcusmeissner.livejournal.com/13428.html )
I tried this myself, and saw a dramatic improvement. I've used openSUSE 10.3 since Alpha 5 or so, and I guess all the refreshes of factory and KDE4 cluttered the cache files, because when I ran the steps above it pretty much cut my file sizes in half and Yast package management once again ran as fast as when I initially installed 10.3.
I also posted it on suseforums.net for feedback, and it seems to be positive.
I understand that factory refreshes place a non-standard "load" on the package manager, and that most users of 10.3 Final will not be placing as high a load on the package manager, but if this addresses a flaw that is intrinsic to the way zypper and rpm operate, is it worth maybe creating a standard script via cron job that "cleans" the package manager on a regular basis (weekly, monthly, whatever) ?
Just one side note. My Laptop has 256MB only. A 512MB or 1GB machine would have not that much time difference, just because the files are larger. The machine is also from 2002, newer harddisk might be faster. "rpm --rebuilddb" ... I guess running it once every 1000 package updates is sufficient. THis is however difficult to measure ;) Ciao, Marcus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org