On 12/29/2012 07:24 PM, Paul Wouters wrote: > > My yum update on f18 took about 20 minutes installing 3380 packages. > > Cleanup : bash-4.2.39-1.fc18.x86_64 3377/3380 > Cleanup : nss-softokn-freebl-3.14-5.fc18 3378/3380 > Cleanup : glibc-2.16-24.fc18 3379/3380 > Cleanup : tzdata-2012i-1.fc18.noarch 3380/3380 > > And then it just sat there and sat there...... > > Cpu(s): 1.7 us, 1.9 sy, 0.0 ni, 86.8 id, 9.2 wa, 0.2 hi, 0.2 si, > 0.0 st > KiB Mem: 16412252 total, 16259348 used, 152904 free, 2064256 buffers > KiB Swap: 16777212 total, 1289788 used, 15487424 free, 1120880 cached > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 8268 root 20 0 5024m 4.8g 2688 R 22.5 30.5 7:51.49 texlua > 2738 paul 20 0 2203m 359m 31m S 2.6 2.2 40:48.75 gnome-shell > 79 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 1.0 0.0 1:47.27 kswapd0 > > $ ps auxw|grep texlua > root 8268 37.5 32.7 5515148 5369112 pts/2 D+ 18:56 8:30 texlua > /usr/bin/mtxrun --generate > > $ rpm -qf /usr/bin/mtxrun > texlive-context-bin-2012-0.svn26861.10.20121205_r28449.fc18.noarch > > What is this? The man page hints of pdf generations. Why is this > happening? Why is it taking 8+ hours? Why is it taking 5GB of RES RAM? > > These are several bugs that should be addressed. Endusers will not wait > 8+ hours, so right now whoever owns this can be sure it will just get > killed by impatient people. Some people won't have 5GB for this. I'm just guessing in the dark here, but it is probably being invoked from a scriptlet. Look through all the packages that got touched in that transaction and see if any of them have scriplets that might have invoked texlua/mxtrun directly (or indirectly). ~tom == Fedora Project -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel