On Fri, 2014-10-24 at 12:00 +0200, Miroslav Suchý wrote: > I'm not updating daily. I upgraded my machine IIRC 2-3 weeks ago. So lets > benchmark it and provide you real data. > > My machine have classic magnetic disk, however in SW RAID1. > Timing cached reads: 12236 MB in 2.00 seconds = 6124.59 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 412 MB in 3.00 seconds = 137.12 MB/sec > Fedora 21, 16 GB RAM (2GB free), 8 CPU cores, swap available but none used > > I run "dnf upgrade" and I have been offered 853 packages and 1.3 GB to > download. > Download lasted 3mins 20secs. > Then installation started and since beginning "transaction started" till the > end lasted exactly 53 minutes. > No specific package is blocking the process, dnf was chewing packages one by > one in steady pace. Veryfing phase lasted > ~4 minutes, so it means approximately 3 second per package, which is what I > am seeing on screen. > > And this is nothing exceptional. I see similar times across all machines I > maintain. When I'm updating box of my mother > (old EeeBox, updating aprox every 3 months) then the time is usually 3 hours > (however ~1 hour is just download phase).
More than anything, doesn't this just shows that we simply push way too many updates in Fedora? -- Mathieu -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
