Hi! Yesterday I tried several updates with yast2 Online Update on my SuSE 7.3 Pro Gameserver. Unfortunately the box died everytime because of a Load of 1.63 and later did not react anymore. I switched to fou4s and didn't have any problems with that. Why is Yast2 so CPU-intensive? Why do I have to wait for ages compared to fou4s? On other distributions (debian: apt-get / RedHat: up2date) there are fine console utilities for that purpose, that can be run via cron and don't kick my server, because of too much cpu use. Here is my /var/log/y2log file from yesterday: 2003-07-01 20:28:02 <1> 44-6(2616) [liby2] genericfrontend.cc(main):96 Launched YaST2 component 'y2bignfat' 2003-07-01 20:28:02 <1> 44-6(2616) [Interpreter] clients/menu.ycp:47 Including YCP file /usr/lib/YaST2/include/ui/common_messages.ycp 2003-07-01 20:28:02 <1> 44-6(2616) [ncurses] NCurses.cc(init):167 +++ 2003-07-01 20:28:02 <1> 44-6(2616) [ncurses] NCurses.cc(init):172 isatty: stdout-yes stderr-yes 2003-07-01 20:28:02 <1> 44-6(2616) [ncurses] NCurses.cc(init):179 mytty: /dev/tty1 2003-07-01 20:28:02 <1> 44-6(2616) [ncurses] NCurses.cc(init):225 NCurses ready: NC - 24 x 80 - colors 8 - pairs 64 2003-07-01 20:28:02 <1> 44-6(2616) [ncurses] NCurses.cc(init):225 NC - rootw 0x806d010 - ( 0, 0)23x79 - {(nil) - (-1,-1)} 2003-07-01 20:28:02 <1> 44-6(2616) [ncurses] NCurses.cc(init):225 NC - title 0x806ce58 - ( 0, 0) 0x79 - {(nil) - (-1,-1)} 2003-07-01 20:28:02 <1> 44-6(2616) [ncurses] Y2NCursesUI.cc(Y2NCursesUI):110 Y2NCursesUI ready 2003-07-01 20:28:08 <1> 44-6(2616) [Interpreter] clients/menu.ycp:286 Calling YCP module tv ([]) 2003-07-01 20:28:08 <1> 44-6(2616) [Interpreter] clients/tv.ycp:27 Including YCP file /usr/lib/YaST2/include/ui/wizard_dialog.ycp 2003-07-01 20:28:08 <1> 44-6(2616) [Interpreter] ui/wizard_dialog.ycp:18 Including YCP file /usr/lib/YaST2/include/ui/common_messages.ycp 2003-07-01 20:28:08 <1> 44-6(2616) [Interpreter] clients/tv.ycp:28 Including YCP file /usr/lib/YaST2/include/require.ycp 2003-07-01 20:28:08 <1> 44-6(2616) [Interpreter] include/require.ycp:18 Including YCP file /usr/lib/YaST2/include/ui/common_messages.ycp 2003-07-01 20:28:08 <1> 44-6(2616) [Interpreter] clients/tv.ycp:30 Including YCP file /usr/lib/YaST2/include/tv/io.ycp 2003-07-01 20:28:08 <1> 44-6(2616) [Interpreter] clients/tv.ycp:31 Including YCP file /usr/lib/YaST2/include/tv/ui.ycp 2003-07-01 20:28:08 <1> 44-6(2616) [Interpreter] tv/ui.ycp:25 Including YCP file /usr/lib/YaST2/include/wizard/sequencer.ycp 2003-07-01 20:28:08 <1> 44-6(2616) [Interpreter] tv/ui.ycp:26 Including YCP file /usr/lib/YaST2/include/ui/wizard_hw.ycp 2003-07-01 20:28:08 <1> 44-6(2616) [Interpreter] tv/ui.ycp:27 Including YCP file /usr/lib/YaST2/include/ui/common_popups.ycp 2003-07-01 20:28:08 <1> 44-6(2616) [Interpreter] ui/common_popups.ycp:18 Including YCP file /usr/lib/YaST2/include/ui/common_messages.ycp 2003-07-01 20:28:09 <1> 44-6(2616) [Interpreter] tv/ui.ycp:28 Including YCP file /usr/lib/YaST2/include/ui/common_messages.ycp 2003-07-01 20:28:09 <1> 44-6(2616) [Interpreter] tv/ui.ycp:29 Including YCP file /usr/lib/YaST2/include/ui/summary.ycp 2003-07-01 20:28:09 <1> 44-6(2616) [Interpreter] tv/ui.ycp:32 Including YCP file /usr/lib/YaST2/include/tv/helps.ycp 2003-07-01 20:28:09 <1> 44-6(2616) [Interpreter] tv/ui.ycp:33 Including YCP file /usr/lib/YaST2/include/tv/structures.ycp 2003-07-01 20:28:14 <1> 44-6(2616) [Interpreter] :0 shellcommand '/bin/rpm -q kwintv' 2003-07-01 20:28:15 <1> 44-6(2616) [Interpreter] :0 shellcommand '/opt/kde2/bin/kv4lsetup' 2003-07-01 20:28:17 <1> 44-6(2616) [ncurses] Y2NCursesUI.cc(Y2NCursesUI):130 Y2NCursesUI shutdown... 2003-07-01 20:28:17 <1> 44-6(2616) [ncurses] NCurses.cc(NCurses):138 NCurses shutdown... 2003-07-01 20:28:17 <1> 44-6(2616) [ncurses] NCurses.cc(NCurses):146 NCurses down 2003-07-01 20:28:17 <1> 44-6(2616) [liby2] genericfrontend.cc(main):348 Finished YaST2 component 'y2bignfat' 2003-07-01 20:28:22 <1> 44-6(2663) [liby2] genericfrontend.cc(main):96 Launched YaST2 component 'y2bignfat' 2003-07-01 20:28:22 <1> 44-6(2663) [Interpreter] clients/menu.ycp:47 Including YCP file /usr/lib/YaST2/include/ui/common_messages.ycp 2003-07-01 20:28:22 <1> 44-6(2663) [ncurses] NCurses.cc(init):167 +++ 2003-07-01 20:28:22 <1> 44-6(2663) [ncurses] NCurses.cc(init):172 isatty: stdout-yes stderr-yes 2003-07-01 20:28:22 <1> 44-6(2663) [ncurses] NCurses.cc(init):179 mytty: /dev/tty1 2003-07-01 20:28:22 <1> 44-6(2663) [ncurses] NCurses.cc(init):225 NCurses ready: NC - 24 x 80 - colors 8 - pairs 64 2003-07-01 20:28:22 <1> 44-6(2663) [ncurses] NCurses.cc(init):225 NC - rootw 0x806d010 - ( 0, 0)23x79 - {(nil) - (-1,-1)} 2003-07-01 20:28:22 <1> 44-6(2663) [ncurses] NCurses.cc(init):225 NC - title 0x806ce58 - ( 0, 0) 0x79 - {(nil) - (-1,-1)} 2003-07-01 20:28:22 <1> 44-6(2663) [ncurses] Y2NCursesUI.cc(Y2NCursesUI):110 Y2NCursesUI ready 2003-07-01 20:28:31 <1> 44-6(2663) [Interpreter] clients/menu.ycp:286 Calling YCP module online_update ([]) 2003-07-01 20:28:32 <1> 44-6(2663) [Interpreter] clients/online_update.ycp:24 Loading YCP module /usr/lib/YaST2/modules/Installation.ycp 2003-07-01 20:28:32 <1> 44-6(2663) [Interpreter] clients/online_update.ycp:28 Including YCP file /usr/lib/YaST2/include/ui/wizard_dialog.ycp 2003-07-01 20:28:32 <1> 44-6(2663) [Interpreter] ui/wizard_dialog.ycp:18 Including YCP file /usr/lib/YaST2/include/ui/common_messages.ycp 2003-07-01 20:28:32 <1> 44-6(2663) [Interpreter] clients/online_update.ycp:29 Including YCP file /usr/lib/YaST2/include/ui/common_popups.ycp 2003-07-01 20:28:32 <1> 44-6(2663) [Interpreter] ui/common_popups.ycp:18 Including YCP file /usr/lib/YaST2/include/ui/common_messages.ycp 2003-07-01 20:28:32 <1> 44-6(2663) [Interpreter] clients/online_update.ycp:30 Including YCP file /usr/lib/YaST2/include/ui/common_functions.ycp 2003-07-01 20:28:32 <1> 44-6(2663) [Interpreter] clients/online_update.ycp:31 Including YCP file /usr/lib/YaST2/include/ui/common_messages.ycp 2003-07-01 20:28:32 <1> 44-6(2663) [Interpreter] clients/online_update.ycp:331 Calling YCP function module /usr/lib/YaST2/clients/online_update_start.ycp 2003-07-01 20:28:32 <1> 44-6(2663) [Interpreter] clients/online_update_start.ycp:32 Including YCP file /usr/lib/YaST2/include/suseservers.ycp 2003-07-01 20:28:32 <1> 44-6(2663) [YCP] clients/online_update_start.ycp:60 YAST2_LOADFTPSERVER = yes 2003-07-01 20:28:32 <1> 44-6(2663) [Interpreter] :0 shellcommand '/bin/cp /etc/suseservers /etc/suseservers.bak' 2003-07-01 20:28:32 <1> 44-6(2663) [Interpreter] :0 shellcommand '/usr/bin/wget -q --output-document=/etc/suseservers --tries=2 --timeout=5 http://www.suse.de/de/support/download/suseservers.txt' 2003-07-01 20:28:33 <1> 44-6(2663) [YCP] clients/online_update_start.ycp:77 command /usr/bin/wget -q --output-document=/etc/suseservers --tries=2 --timeout=5 http://www.suse.de/de/support/download/suseservers.txt ok 2003-07-01 20:28:33 <1> 44-6(2663) [Interpreter] :0 shellcommand '/bin/rm /etc/suseservers.bak' 2003-07-01 20:28:33 <1> 44-6(2663) [YCP] clients/online_update_start.ycp:101 FTP server: ftp.leo.org, directory: /pub/comp/os/unix/linux/suse/suse 2003-07-01 20:28:54 <1> 44-6(2663) [Interpreter] clients/online_update.ycp:331 Calling YCP function module /usr/lib/YaST2/clients/online_update_load.ycp 2003-07-01 20:28:54 <2> 44-6(2665) [ui-layout] YSplit.cc(calcSecondaryGeometry):521 Resizing child widget #1 (YSplit) below its nice size of 122 to 78 - check the layout! 2003-07-01 20:28:54 <2> 44-6(2665) [ui-layout] YSplit.cc(calcPrimaryGeometry):350 Resizing child widget #2 (YSplit) below its nice size of 84 to 53 - check the layout! 2003-07-01 20:28:54 <2> 44-6(2665) [ui-layout] YSplit.cc(calcSecondaryGeometry):521 Resizing child widget #2 (YAlignment) below its nice size of 84 to 53 - check the layout! 2003-07-01 20:28:54 <2> 44-6(2665) [ui-layout] YSplit.cc(calcSecondaryGeometry):521 Resizing child widget #1 (YSplit) below its nice size of 84 to 53 - check the layout! 2003-07-01 20:28:54 <2> 44-6(2665) [ui-layout] YSplit.cc(calcPrimaryGeometry):350 Resizing child widget #0 (YSplit) below its nice size of 42 to 26 - check the layout! 2003-07-01 20:28:54 <2> 44-6(2665) [ui-layout] YSplit.cc(calcPrimaryGeometry):350 Resizing child widget #1 (YSplit) below its nice size of 42 to 26 - check the layout! 2003-07-01 20:28:54 <2> 44-6(2665) [ui-layout] YSplit.cc(calcSecondaryGeometry):521 Resizing child widget #1 (YAlignment) below its nice size of 42 to 26 - check the layout! 2003-07-01 20:28:54 <2> 44-6(2665) [ui-layout] YSplit.cc(calcSecondaryGeometry):521 Resizing child widget #1 (YAlignment) below its nice size of 42 to 26 - check the layout! 2003-07-01 20:28:56 <2> 44-6(2663) [yast2-core-pkginfo] ConfigFile.cc(readFile):114 opening : /info 2003-07-01 20:28:56 <2> 44-6(2663) [Interpreter] :0 Execute (.bash, ...) without full path ! 2003-07-01 20:28:56 <1> 44-6(2663) [Interpreter] :0 shellcommand 'rm -rf /var/lib/YaST/patches/i386/update/7.3/patches/*.new' 2003-07-01 20:28:56 <2> 44-6(2663) [Interpreter] :0 Execute (.bash, ...) without full path ! 2003-07-01 20:28:56 <1> 44-6(2663) [Interpreter] :0 shellcommand 'rm -rf /var/lib/YaST/patches/i386/update/7.3/patches/*.error' Philippe