On Friday 22 September 2006 02:56, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Friday 2006-09-22 at 15:07 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
There were 87 odd updates available this evening. The entire process took 50 minutes. (Its not a fast machine).
The speed of the computer has nothing to do with it- downloading is done by the modem (be it dialup or ADSL); the speed of the computer only comes in when the patches have to be installed.
Not really.
Other SuSE versions did first download all the updates, then they installed them.
Yes, and prior versions of zmd/zypp had huge long pauses (sometimes 20 minutes) between packages. Watching gkrellm (or your favorite tool) you could see no activity in the processor and nothing going across the wire for LONG periods of time. Then a session of heavy network traffic followed by a cpu spike, then nothing again for many many minutes. The newest updater starts another download immediately after the preceeding package installs. My suspicion is that a timer was previously used incorrectly which required rug sleep-interval to timeout between packages or something bone-headed like that. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen