On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 17:11 -0400, Kavon Farvardin wrote: > So I installed Fedora 11 recently on my ThinkPad R61, and had 560+ > packages to update. Installing and cleaning the packages has been taking > FOREVER. Almost several hours, I've had to stop it so often (and restart > it with yum-continue-transaction) because it lags my entire system. It's > all IO use too, the CPU is barely being used! > > I have installed a solid state drive in my laptop and it shouldn't be so > slow at deleting or cleaning packages, it's doing one every 5 seconds or > more. Is there some bug with SSDs and yum? (maybe python related as it > seems yum is written in python?) I have no speed issues with anything > else, and when I installed this drive it was a huge overall performance > improvement over my 5400 RPM disk. I'm also using ext4 as it was the > default, and I think a Logical Volume setup instead of a partition based > one (again, default settings). > > What should I do? ---- at this point, grin and bear it. I think that more than just install/uninstall, it also runs ld to link/unlink installed software let it finish and you will be much happier Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
