On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 22:39 -0700, Curtis Doty wrote: > seth vidal wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 22:18 -0700, Curtis Doty wrote: > > > >> Attempting to kickstart from the latest yum f13 everthing+updates repositories on an i7 system with a gazillion cores. But anaconda takes almost 5 minutes depsolving in the postselection step, even though a small set of packages are selected. It appears to be pegging only one cpu/core while the others all sit idle. > >> > >> Are there any plans/ways to speed this up? > >> > >> All the other steps just keep getting faster and faster. Especially when doing minimal install over gigabit. But the yum depsolve step seems to be getting slower. > >> > > > > > > Did your system have lots and lots of disks or partitions? > > > > Only 2 relatively small disks. > > The entire system build takes under 9 minutes. About 2 minutes is spend > actually installing packages, but over 4 minutes is depsolving. Maybe > this is a quirk with my setup? But when I ran top in a shell it seemed > to be pegging one cpu thread while everything else was idle. > there was a bug with disks where it would keep adding the same pkgs to the transaction set and that made it take forever and a day but it shouldn't with only 2 disks. The only other thing I can think of is - is your main or updates repo over a dicey network connection? that would make it take a while - just to download the repodata it needs. -sv _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
