On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 18:01 +0200, Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett wrote:
> On Friday 28 September 2007 15:40:18 Jonathan D. Arnold / Daemon Dancing
> wrote:
> > You could just ask whenever the YaST package manage UI comes up. Run some
> > metric that checks the size and/or condition of the zypper database
On Friday 28 September 2007 15:40:18 Jonathan D. Arnold / Daemon Dancing
wrote:
> You could just ask whenever the YaST package manage UI comes up. Run some
> metric that checks the size and/or condition of the zypper database and if
> it is "too big", put up a dialog box that says "The Package Dat
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 10:35:22PM -0400, Kevin Valko wrote:
> Saw this brilliant post from Marcus Meissner about speeding up the package
> management stack (link: http://marcusmeissner.livejournal.com/13428.html )
>
> I tried this myself, and saw a dramatic improvement. I've used openSUSE 10.3
> The biggest "?" is about operation time. This cleanup also takes lot of
> time and is cpu and IO intensive. The right moment to do it is after heavy
> database writting, that is refresh. Cron job also was suggested as an idea.
> But consideer the cron job too random about "when" to do it, and al
Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett wrote:
> On Friday 28 September 2007 04:35:22 Kevin Valko wrote:
>> I'm really, really impressed with the improvements to package management
>> for 10.3, and I think the vast majority of existing users will be as well.
>> I'm just wondering if we can cut down potential probl
M9. wrote:
> It is just an idea, but it might be done in the background, when the
> system is not heavily used, and paused when the sytem is used, or is
> that not an option?
> If there could be a limitation to the cpu use of this action, nobody
> would be anoyed if it happened during normal use..
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Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett schreef:
> On Friday 28 September 2007 04:35:22 Kevin Valko wrote:
>> I'm really, really impressed with the improvements to package management
>> for 10.3, and I think the vast majority of existing users will be as well.
>> I'm
On Friday 28 September 2007 04:35:22 Kevin Valko wrote:
> I'm really, really impressed with the improvements to package management
> for 10.3, and I think the vast majority of existing users will be as well.
> I'm just wondering if we can cut down potential problems in the default
> install, witho
Saw this brilliant post from Marcus Meissner about speeding up the package
management stack (link: http://marcusmeissner.livejournal.com/13428.html )
I tried this myself, and saw a dramatic improvement. I've used openSUSE 10.3
since Alpha 5 or so, and I guess all the refreshes of factory and K
