Re: Rediculous amount of IO use when updating packages!

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On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 18:06 -0400, Jim wrote:
> On 09/11/2009 05:20 PM, Craig White wrote:
> > 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
> >
> >
> >    
> Are you installing this SSD into a existing OS that used a previous IDE PATA
> drive, if so , it's probably thinking it still is reading IDE.
> You'll probably will have to do a clean install with the SSD installed.
> 

Nah, this install of Fedora never knew of an IDE.

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