https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=298716#c293740 Summary: zypper is slow -- because it fetches unneeded patterns (for other archs) Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: Alpha 7 Platform: All OS/Version: openSUSE 10.2 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: libzypp AssignedTo: kkaempf@novell.com ReportedBy: gp@novell.com QAContact: kkaempf@novell.com Found By: Product Management This is similar to Bugzilla #293740 which was addressed very quickly -- thanks for that! Using openSUSE Factory which is a combined tree, I found that libzypp downloads all patterns in five flavors. rana:/var/cache/zypp/raw/factory/suse/setup/descr # ls -la xml* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3460 2007-08-07 15:05 xml-10.3-96.i586.pat -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3458 2007-08-07 15:05 xml-10.3-96.ppc.pat -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3464 2007-08-07 15:05 xml-10.3-96.x86_64.pat -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 538 2007-08-07 15:05 xml-32bit-10.3-96.x86_64.pat -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 532 2007-08-07 15:05 xml-64bit-10.3-96.ppc.pat Four out of these five are probably quite useless on my old 32-bit notebook, and while it's not a huge amount of data, it is some. And with 470 *.pat files this probably means that more than 350 TCP/IP and HTTP/FTP connections are opened needlessly. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.