Re: Script in GUI (Was: openSUSE as a router, how to? Solved!)

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, houghi wrote:-

Vahis wrote:
I seriously doubt that moving from the outside to the inside will give
you any noticable speed advantage. My guess is that if you only do the
rpm bit, all should be well.

It's some time ago that I discovered this while looking for reason for
slowing down the package management.

It took me some time again to find where I got this from:
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Speed_up_Package_Manager_Stack

Extremely strange and I would still like to know why.

I can understand the compression of the zypp.db, since doing that on one
of my 10.3 systems shrank the database down from 144MB to 77MB. I can
maybe understand compressing/rebuilding the RPM databases, as that might
also shrink them down a bit.

I'm also curious about why there would need to be any de-fragmenting of
the other files, since the only time I see any noticeable speed drops is
when ext2/3 partitions are over 95% full. I don't know what effect it
would have with XFS or reiserfs since I've not yet filled one of those
file systems to that point.


Regards,
David Bolt

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