You might run a smartctl --all /dev/<disk> and see if the disk is reporting issues with sectors. A few slow but still readable sectors would push up the time. On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 1:25 AM Michael D. Setzer II via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 2020-05-29 01:58, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: > >> I've got 5 Fedora machines at my house. Recently > >> upgraded a couple since FC30 was becoming EOL. > >> > >> Some I did a clean install. New Hard disk, and install > >> from iso. Usually, that takes about 1/2 hour for whole > >> process. Including install of OS, and then install of a > >> number of other packages I use that are not installed by > >> default. > >> > >> Did update on my notebook machine as well using dnf > >> system update. This system has some more packages > >> installed. Showed 5070 versus about 2000+ for the > >> clean install. Download process took about 30 minutes, > >> but then the reboot and upgrade process took just over > >> 14 hours. Total was 14 hours 50 minutes. > >> > >> Not clear why it would take 15 times as long? Checked > >> while running, and dnf was running at 100%, but just > >> using 1 cpu. Notebook has dual cpus. Don't know if > >> others just run it, and check when done, but seems to > >> be a bigger difference in time than it should be. > > > > I do not know why your upgrade would have taken so long. I just upgraded > > an > > F30 VM to F32. It is a pretty vanilla Workstation install. The VM's > > disks are actually > > hosted on a NAS over nfs and are traditional spinning HW. > > > > I upgraded via "dnf system-upgrade". The number of packages upgraded was > > 1656. > > The download phase took 9 minutes 10 seconds. The upgrade phase took a > > few ticks > > over 25 minutes. > > > > I would think that checking > > > > dnf system-upgrade log > > > > and seeing if one area in particular was responsible for the excessive > > time may be > > helpful. > > > > Another recent upgrade of an old notebook from F31->F32, Core2 Duo CPU, > > with 2626 > > packages upgraded took 58 minutes. That notebook does have an SSD. > > > > -- > > The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. > > Pulled the data from the boot.log > 31814 lines > Total Time 14:59.59.05 > Longest single change was 1156.203674 seconds > [ 1740.207952] dnf[807]: Running scriptlet: > filesystem-3.12-2.fc31.x86_64 1/1 > Average of transactions 1.6918392547953 > Only 11 transactions took 60 seconds or longer > > Had to clean out lines that where mixed in with the upgrade of starting > and stopping things during process. > Extracted the time data, and then compared the times of each process to > calculate the difference. > > CPU is Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU 2020M @ 2.40GHz with just 2 cores. > Has 12G of Ram. > > If you want, I could send you the libreoffice calc file. Perhaps you would > see something that I've missed. > > > _______________________________________________ > > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Fedora Code of Conduct: > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > > List Archives: > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
