On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
I decided to clean up some old crud.
# rpm -e kernel-2.6.6-1.435.2.1 kernel-2.6.6-1.435.2.3 kernel-2.6.8-1.521 kernel-2.6.7-1.494.2.2 kernel-2.6.9-1.3_FC2 kernel-2.6.9-1.6_FC2 kernel-2.6.9-1.11_FC2
I was watching this with top(1).
This command took six minutes to complete, with rpm taking up 100% CPU for six minutes straight.
Yes, these are large packages that are being removed. No, even with all that, taking six minutes, a dual Opteron box, with SCSI RAID, is unreasonable.
The kernel package runs hardlink on /lib/modules/*/build/ in %post to save space on FC2 and FC3, that's what's taking so long when installing and removing kernels. That's no longer the case on devel tree kernels where the headers have been split out to separate kernel-devel package for those who need it. Kernel-devel still does the hardlink, but that doesn't affect nearly as many people.
- Panu -
