On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:15:46 +1100, Rodd Clarkson wrote: > I repeat... Why is rpm -qa | grep openoffice.org2 soooo slow? > > It eventually turns out some output, but it takes the better part of a > couple of minutes (very subjective, but I managed to talk to my wife > about something and then type this email and it still isn't finished, so > it's a reasonable amount of time.) Actually a couple of minutes is > bloody generous. > > After waiting so long i decided to do a real test, so here it is... > > [rodd@localhost database]$ time rpm -qa | grep openoffice.org2 > openoffice.org2-impress-1.9.77-1 > openoffice.org2-core-1.9.77-1 > openoffice.org2-xsltfilter-1.9.77-1 > openoffice.org2-writer-1.9.77-1 > openoffice.org2-graphicfilter-1.9.77-1 > > real 6m28.496s > user 0m3.070s > sys 0m0.559s > [rodd@localhost database]$ One thing for certain, that doesn't look normal. Your test shows that the process took only roughly 3.6 seconds of CPU time. So it didn't compute a lot. Under normal circumstances, it would have terminated after less than four seconds. But possible it was interrupted very often or spent a lot of time waiting for I/O or locks. Processes which sleep often (I doubt RPM does that) would also increase the "real" execution time. Was your machine very busy when you ran this test? -- Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg) - Linux 2.6.10-1.766_FC3 loadavg: 1.00 1.09 1.14