Re: packagekitd Hogging CPU

2021-06-27 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2021-06-27 at 12:33 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2021, 3:44 AM Patrick O'Callaghan > > wrote: > > > > > > > Interesting. That sounds superficially similar to Android's A/B > > system > > update method. Is there work being done on getting this into > > Fedora? > > > >

Re: packagekitd Hogging CPU

2021-06-27 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Jun 23, 2021, 3:44 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > Interesting. That sounds superficially similar to Android's A/B system > update method. Is there work being done on getting this into Fedora? > Folks are looking at multiple ways of doing it. All options imply some kind of layout

Re: packagekitd Hogging CPU

2021-06-23 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2021-06-23 at 09:54 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > Also, without the automagic background pakagekit nonsense running, > you can run dnf exactly when you want to rather than discovering that > packagekit has the updates locked while it is downloading stuff. It > seems to have the uncanny

Re: packagekitd Hogging CPU

2021-06-23 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 23 Jun 2021 13:14:56 +0930 Tim via users wrote: > Remove/disable package kit. > Do manual updates when you feel like it. Also, without the automagic background pakagekit nonsense running, you can run dnf exactly when you want to rather than discovering that packagekit has the updates

Re: packagekitd Hogging CPU

2021-06-23 Thread George N. White III
On Tue, 22 Jun 2021 at 14:05, Tim via users wrote: > On Tue, 2021-06-22 at 13:29 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > > Many of the younger linux users I encounter came to linux from > > Windows because a mission critical application requires linux. Some > > have only used the command line after

Re: packagekitd Hogging CPU

2021-06-23 Thread Tim Evans
On 6/23/21 5:43 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: It's a more sophisticated variation on on I came up with by (rw) snapshotting the 'root' subvolume, mounting it, and using chroot to do a full system update (and upgrade). It's an out of band or side car update. No reboot to a special environment.

Re: packagekitd Hogging CPU

2021-06-23 Thread Tim Evans
On 6/22/21 11:44 PM, Tim via users wrote: You can: Remove/disable package kit. Do manual updates when you feel like it. Reboot when you want to. That's what I do. The last thing I want is several minutes of waiting around for the computer to shutdown or startup when I don't want to be waiting

Re: packagekitd Hogging CPU

2021-06-23 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2021-06-22 at 22:34 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 10:58 AM Joe Zeff wrote: > > > > On 6/22/21 10:29 AM, George N. White III wrote: > > > The Gnome software manager has the added advantages > > > that it a) forces a reboot and b) offers flatpak versions of > > >

Re: packagekitd Hogging CPU

2021-06-23 Thread Joe Zeff
On 6/22/21 9:59 PM, Tim via users wrote: One of my peeves about Ubuntu (years ago, but may still apply), was that their forums were full of Windows escapees, still carrying on in the same way. Not knowing what they were doing, yet giving (bad) cargo cult advice, and carrying on in a Windows

Re: packagekitd Hogging CPU

2021-06-22 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 11:24 AM Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: > I don't know a lot about Packagekit, or anything else really. > But I will take this chance to complain again. When rebooting or shutting > down my laptop, many times the process is delayed (up to 1.5 minutes) and it > displays

Re: packagekitd Hogging CPU

2021-06-22 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 10:58 AM Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 6/22/21 10:29 AM, George N. White III wrote: > > The Gnome software manager has the added advantages > > that it a) forces a reboot and b) offers flatpak versions of major > > applications. > > The forced reboot is only an advantage if some

Re: packagekitd Hogging CPU

2021-06-22 Thread Tim via users
George N. White III: > The forums for some of the mission critical applications have seen > cases where users were told to install an updated distro package. > User then reports that the update had no effect (because the old > library is still being used) and proceeds to run wild reinstalling >

Re: packagekitd Hogging CPU

2021-06-22 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2021-06-22 at 12:24 -0500, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: > I don't know a lot about Packagekit, or anything else really. > But I will take this chance to complain again. When rebooting or > shutting down my laptop, many times the process is delayed (up to 1.5 > minutes) and it displays its

Re: packagekitd Hogging CPU

2021-06-22 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> Long ago I gave up helping such users by no- >> longer continually fixing their broken Windows... Joe Zeff: > "Sorry, I don't do Windows." Exactly! I still get asked if I can recommend anti-virus software, and I reply that I haven't touched Windows in years, I don't need it on my

Re: packagekitd Hogging CPU

2021-06-22 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 22 Jun 2021 14:29:33 -0600 Joe Zeff wrote: > And that's why I suggest some form of Ubuntu to people like that. I use ubuntu on the little computer I have running my 3D printer so I can run the LTS release and not worry about upgrading every 6 months. I just had a problem with the latest

Re: packagekitd Hogging CPU

2021-06-22 Thread Joe Zeff
On 6/22/21 12:57 PM, George N. White III wrote: As long as the Gnome software manager doesn't get in the way of doing updates with DNF, you should be able to leave it to the users who insist on doing everything with GUI's. *Shrug!* If they really want to do everything through a point and

Re: packagekitd Hogging CPU

2021-06-22 Thread Joe Zeff
On 6/22/21 11:02 AM, Tim via users wrote: Long ago I gave up helping such users by no- longer continually fixing their broken Windows... "Sorry, I don't do Windows." ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email

Re: packagekitd Hogging CPU

2021-06-22 Thread George N. White III
On Tue, 22 Jun 2021 at 14:00, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 6/22/21 10:29 AM, George N. White III wrote: > > The Gnome software manager has the added advantages > > that it a) forces a reboot and b) offers flatpak versions of major > > applications. > > The forced reboot is only an advantage if some of

Re: packagekitd Hogging CPU

2021-06-22 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
On Tue, Jun 22, 2021, at 10:23 AM, Tim Evans wrote: > On 6/21/21 4:52 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > > PackageKit and dnf keep separate metadata in /var/cache and they > > update periodically. PackageKit seems to do this on login, but I've > > also noticed it trigger an update when I switch

Re: packagekitd Hogging CPU

2021-06-22 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2021-06-22 at 13:29 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > Many of the younger linux users I encounter came to linux from > Windows because a mission critical application requires linux. Some > have only used the command line after Google told them to run "sudo > " resulting in a badly

Re: packagekitd Hogging CPU

2021-06-22 Thread Joe Zeff
On 6/22/21 10:29 AM, George N. White III wrote: The Gnome software manager has the added advantages that it a) forces a reboot and b) offers flatpak versions of major applications. The forced reboot is only an advantage if some of the upgrades require a reboot to get them started. Most

Re: packagekitd Hogging CPU

2021-06-22 Thread George N. White III
On Tue, 22 Jun 2021 at 12:25, Tim Evans wrote: > On 6/21/21 4:52 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > > PackageKit and dnf keep separate metadata in /var/cache and they > > update periodically. PackageKit seems to do this on login, but I've > > also noticed it trigger an update when I switch networks.

Re: packagekitd Hogging CPU

2021-06-22 Thread Tim Evans
On 6/21/21 4:52 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: PackageKit and dnf keep separate metadata in /var/cache and they update periodically. PackageKit seems to do this on login, but I've also noticed it trigger an update when I switch networks. And dnf is on a timer. Either of them can use a lot of cpu, it

Re: packagekitd Hogging CPU

2021-06-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 7:18 AM Tim Evans wrote: > > $ uname -a > Linux harrier 5.12.11-300.fc34.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jun 16 15:47:58 UTC > 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > As I sit here, my Lenovo T530 laptop is reporting packagekitd is taking > anywhere from 20 to 40 percent of CPU, per

Re: packagekitd Hogging CPU

2021-06-21 Thread Barry Scott
> On 21 Jun 2021, at 14:18, Tim Evans wrote: > > $ uname -a > Linux harrier 5.12.11-300.fc34.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jun 16 15:47:58 UTC 2021 > x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > As I sit here, my Lenovo T530 laptop is reporting packagekitd is taking > anywhere from 20 to 40 percent of CPU, per

packagekitd Hogging CPU

2021-06-21 Thread Tim Evans
$ uname -a Linux harrier 5.12.11-300.fc34.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jun 16 15:47:58 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux As I sit here, my Lenovo T530 laptop is reporting packagekitd is taking anywhere from 20 to 40 percent of CPU, per 'top.' There is continuous disk activity. Nothing going on