On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 22:44 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 18:49:11 -0400, > seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > 1. were you running it on x86_64 or x86? > > x86_64 > > > 2. How many kernels do you have installed? > > I had two installed before hand and it was installing a new one and removing > an old one in that update. > > > 3. When was the operation 3GB in size? Was it during the actual running > > transaction? > > The running transaction message had been displayed, but no messages for > an individual package had been displayed yet. > > > 4. When was the last time you've run: rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*; rpm > > --rebuilddb > > Never. But this was a fresh install last week. > > Normally updates have been running on that machine in a pretty reasonable > time while testing rawhide. But for some reason this one was taking a > while. > > The update on Friday was pretty large since all of the stuff that had > been held for the beta was released. I wasn't watching real closely > at the start, so maybe it had a slow startup as well, though once packages > were being updated it wasn't too bad (several seconds per package typically). > > The cpu usage at that time was almost zero. iotop wasn't installed so I > didn't run that. > > I keep an eye on things tomorrow when I apply the next set of updates. > Is there anything particularly useful you want me to capture? sure run yum like this: yum -d 3 update - look for lines that match this 'time:' - memory use before you hit 'y' at the prompt - memory use after you hit 'y' at the prompt thanks -sv -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
