On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 16:21 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > 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? > > > There was a thread here from Patrick O'Callaghan that may help. It > was about USB flash drives, but it will probably apply to SSDs as > well. I wouldn't be too sure. The kernel parameter is related to write operations over the USB bus. Since SSD drives aren't connected via USB, I doubt it would have any effect. The quickest check would be to see if /sys/block/<drive>/device/max_sectors exists for the SSD. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
