On 16/11/2018 15.16, Michael Hirmke wrote:
Hi,
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Longest I've ever had was just shy of eleven hours: core2duo, rotating rust, 4GB Ram, upgraded since first install. No fun.
Possibly it is much faster on SSD?
I have done the operation more than once, but not since some years. It was never that long, though. I do not want to try on my system, as it is working nicely, but it is a quad core2 of several years vintage with upgrades since ever ;-)
I could do a backup of the databases, then run the repair just for fun. Dunno.
had to run it on a machine, where the OS has been upgraded since 2003. The rpm db was corrupted. rpmdb ran about 2 minutes.
- Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1220L V2 @ 2.30GHz 4 Cores - 8 GB RAM - 512 GB SSD Samsung
I made a backup of the database, then did a rebuild: Telcontar:~ # time rpmdb --rebuilddb real 0m17.212s user 0m10.241s sys 0m4.110s Telcontar:~ # It is an SSD disk, and the system has gone through many updates. Backup: Telcontar:/var/lib/rpm/copia # l total 464080 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 17 00:48 ./ drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Nov 17 01:08 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40366080 Nov 10 13:16 Basenames -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24576 Nov 10 13:16 Conflictname -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10285056 Nov 10 13:16 Dirnames -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 110592 Nov 10 13:16 Group -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 245760 Nov 10 13:16 Installtid -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 413696 Nov 10 13:16 Name -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 106496 Nov 10 13:16 Obsoletename -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 362856448 Nov 10 13:16 Packages -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8126464 Nov 10 13:16 Providename -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 Mar 3 2011 Pubkeys -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1613824 Nov 10 13:16 Requirename -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 794624 Nov 10 13:16 Sha1header -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 479232 Nov 10 13:16 Sigmd5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Oct 6 22:17 Triggername -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49754376 Oct 7 2005 packages.rpm3 Telcontar:/var/lib/rpm/copia # Result: Telcontar:/var/lib/rpm # Telcontar:/var/lib/rpm # l total 373728 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Nov 17 01:08 ./ drwxr-xr-x 113 root root 4096 Nov 17 01:08 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 17 01:08 .rpm.lock -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34963456 Nov 17 01:08 Basenames -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24576 Nov 17 01:08 Conflictname -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8560640 Nov 17 01:08 Dirnames -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 118784 Nov 17 01:08 Group -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 143360 Nov 17 01:08 Installtid -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 442368 Nov 17 01:08 Name -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 102400 Nov 17 01:08 Obsoletename -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 327798784 Nov 17 01:08 Packages -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7921664 Nov 17 01:08 Providename -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 Mar 3 2011 Pubkeys -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1560576 Nov 17 01:08 Requirename -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 684032 Nov 17 01:08 Sha1header -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 393216 Nov 17 01:08 Sigmd5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Nov 17 01:08 Triggername drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 19 20:09 alternatives/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 17 00:48 copia/ Telcontar:/var/lib/rpm # -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)