On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 18:06 -0400, Jim wrote: > On 09/11/2009 05:20 PM, Craig White wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 17:11 -0400, Kavon Farvardin wrote: > > > >> So I installed Fedora 11 recently on my ThinkPad R61, and had 560+ > >> packages to update. Installing and cleaning the packages has been taking > >> FOREVER. Almost several hours, I've had to stop it so often (and restart > >> it with yum-continue-transaction) because it lags my entire system. It's > >> all IO use too, the CPU is barely being used! > >> > >> I have installed a solid state drive in my laptop and it shouldn't be so > >> slow at deleting or cleaning packages, it's doing one every 5 seconds or > >> more. Is there some bug with SSDs and yum? (maybe python related as it > >> seems yum is written in python?) I have no speed issues with anything > >> else, and when I installed this drive it was a huge overall performance > >> improvement over my 5400 RPM disk. I'm also using ext4 as it was the > >> default, and I think a Logical Volume setup instead of a partition based > >> one (again, default settings). > >> > >> What should I do? > >> > > ---- > > at this point, grin and bear it. > > > > I think that more than just install/uninstall, it also runs ld to > > link/unlink installed software > > > > let it finish and you will be much happier > > > > Craig > > > > > > > Are you installing this SSD into a existing OS that used a previous IDE PATA > drive, if so , it's probably thinking it still is reading IDE. > You'll probably will have to do a clean install with the SSD installed. > Nah, this install of Fedora never knew of an IDE. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
