On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Jonathan Dieter<jdieter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> There is also some additional processing required on the >> Fedora infrastructure to generate the deltas > > If the OP is still following this thread, this is the real problem at > the moment. While applying a deltarpm is a linear operation, creating > it is somewhere closer to O(N^2). For a large package, even if Fedora's > infrastructure has loads of RAM, it still takes a number of minutes to > create a deltarpm. Multiply that by four architectures, two releases > (well, one at the moment) and Rawhide, and the compose times > skyrocket. > > The Fedora infrastructure team is trying to streamline the process a > bit, but the fact remains that generating deltarpms costs a lot in CPU > time and RAM usage, and the more deltarpms you generate, the more time > it takes. Is it even possible to distribute to the load to volunteer remote machines? -- Fedora 10 (www.pembo13.com) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines