Re: [SuSE Linux] Why is Yast's package search so slow?
Yes, same here. It takes *forever* to search the system for installed packages. -----Original Message----- From: Paul W. Abrahams <abrahams@valinet.com> To: suse-linux-e@suse.com <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Cc: Paul Abrahams <abrahams@acm.org> Date: Sunday, February 28, 1999 10:43 PM Subject: [SuSE Linux] Why is Yast's package search so slow?
I've noticed that when I use Yast to search for installed packages on my system (using F5 under Package Information), the search takes several minutes - far longer than it takes to search the CDROM. Since the search appears to be almost entirely a CPU computation, I'm puzzled as to why it should take so long. Have other people had the same experience?
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Hi, On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Stan Koper wrote:
Yes, same here. It takes *forever* to search the system for installed packages.
Hmm, I cannot reproduce this. What _exactly_ did you do? Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH <A HREF="mailto:grimmer@suse.de">mailto:grimmer@suse.de</A> Schanzaeckerstr. 10 <A HREF="http://www.suse.de/~grimmer"><A HREF="http://www.suse.de/~grimmer</A">http://www.suse.de/~grimmer</A</A>> 90443 Nuernberg, Germany - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>
Lenz Grimmer wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Stan Koper wrote:
Yes, same here. It takes *forever* to search the system for installed packages.
Hmm, I cannot reproduce this. What _exactly_ did you do?
Bye, LenZ
Here's what I did: 1. Started Yast 2. Choose/Install Packages 3. Package Info 4. Typed "kde" after the colon (but anything else would do). 5. Pressed F5. The search took 2 1/2 minutes (under 5.3). Paul - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>
Hi, On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
Hmm, I cannot reproduce this. What _exactly_ did you do?
1. Started Yast 2. Choose/Install Packages 3. Package Info 4. Typed "kde" after the colon (but anything else would do). 5. Pressed F5.
The search took 2 1/2 minutes (under 5.3).
Strange. I just repeated these steps and it worked fine... Does "top" show any unusual things? Which version of YaST do you use? I have 0.991.2 There's an update on our ftp-Server to version 0.991.3, this should solve the problem: yast.rpm YaST Version 0.991.3 with some bugfixes Fixed scanning RPM database. YaST was confused by packages with multiline summary entries. Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH <A HREF="mailto:grimmer@suse.de">mailto:grimmer@suse.de</A> Schanzaeckerstr. 10 <A HREF="http://www.suse.de/~grimmer"><A HREF="http://www.suse.de/~grimmer</A">http://www.suse.de/~grimmer</A</A>> 90443 Nuernberg, Germany - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>
At 13:35 2/03/99 -0500, Paul W. Abrahams wrote: Hi,
Here's what I did:
1. Started Yast 2. Choose/Install Packages 3. Package Info 4. Typed "kde" after the colon (but anything else would do). 5. Pressed F5.
The search took 2 1/2 minutes (under 5.3).
I have the same problem under 5.3. And my system is a K6-2 300MHz, 64MB SDRAM and CDROM 36x... Bye Jose' Henrique Spahn Torres Department of Applied Physics State University of Campinas - UNICAMP Campinas - SP - Brasil Phone: +55 19 788 5543 email: henrique@ifi.unicamp.br - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>
Henrique wrote:
At 13:35 2/03/99 -0500, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
Hi,
Here's what I did:
1. Started Yast 2. Choose/Install Packages 3. Package Info 4. Typed "kde" after the colon (but anything else would do). 5. Pressed F5.
The search took 2 1/2 minutes (under 5.3).
I have the same problem under 5.3. And my system is a K6-2 300MHz, 64MB SDRAM and CDROM 36x...
I took Lenz's suggestion and upgraded to the newest Yast (in the 6.0 directory on the SuSE ftp site, package a1). It solved the problem. Probably the reason he didn't see the problem we did is that he's been using the new version. (Aside to Lenz: you might want to verify that the old Yast has the slow search on your system, so as to be sure that an upgrade always solves the problem.) Paul - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>
At 12:27 3/03/99 -0500, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
I took Lenz's suggestion and upgraded to the newest Yast (in the 6.0 directory on the SuSE ftp site, package a1). It solved the problem. Probably the reason he didn't see the problem we did is that he's been using the new version. (Aside to Lenz: you might want to verify that the old Yast has the slow search on your system, so as to be sure that an upgrade always solves the problem.)
Hi Paul, Thanks, I'll download it and try. Bye, Jose' Henrique Spahn Torres Department of Applied Physics State University of Campinas - UNICAMP Campinas - SP - Brasil Phone: +55 19 788 5543 email: henrique@ifi.unicamp.br - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>
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