> Seth, that's a useful piece of code for freshening up directories, but > have you any idea where these RPM utils spend all their time? Any > librpm app really, either Python or command line, seems to take forever > sending my load average sky-high, when all it [superficially] has to do > it read some formatted header from 1000-odd files, which to my mind > should be the work of seconds. > That's odd. I checked memory and cpu load on my laptop and on a file server last night when I wrote it. Memory never went about 10M, total and the load appeared to be entirely io bound. -sv
