Bug 12496 - rpm 4 is _very_ chatty, and dog slow on low RAM hosts
Summary: rpm 4 is _very_ chatty, and dog slow on low RAM hosts
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: rpm
Version: 6.2
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeff Johnson
QA Contact:
URL: http://www.owlriver.com/~herrold/rpm-...
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-06-19 01:16 UTC by R P Herrold
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-06-19 01:16:52 UTC
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Description R P Herrold 2000-06-19 01:16:50 UTC
In a simple package install on a locally compiled package, it took over 3
min to install a _single_ 300K package (joe).  a seven package install
(openssl, openssl, and the 5 openssh parts from another host took over ten
minutes.

The dependency resolution logic seems to need serious reqork to gain speed.

Perhaps build a dependency list, and then sort + iuniq it, before checking
what is left.

The sample URL is on a dual pent 150, with 'only' 24 meg -- RH 6.9 would
not even install with 'only' 16 M

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2000-06-21 02:01:06 UTC
You need more memory and possibly a faster cpu.

The dependency resolutions are already nearly as fast as posssible by
caching information in memory, but that has increased the memory footprint of
rpm considerably. Running a SMP kernel with only 24 Mb increases contention
for memory even more, as other processes will run (and compete for memory)
at the same time as rpm.

More I cannot guess without more detailed information.

Comment 2 R P Herrold 2000-06-21 04:24:31 UTC
Even adding more physical ram, and freeing ram by killing off unneeded 
processes, and removing stray processes, the snapshots at 20 sec. intervals are 
pretty scary.  Only 3 M of ram is in use by RPM, yet it takes almost 2 wall 
clock min (1 M 7 s process time) to install a trivial package under 300K in 
size.

Processor contention _should NOT_ be an issue --- the second processessor shows 
as idle.

http://swampfox.owlriver.com:/~herrold/joe.install

I'm worried.



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