On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 13:27 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: > 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. actually the hardlink doesn't matter for rpm -e, only for rpm -i.
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