Comments on: yum and ZYpp speed / memory usage

By: k:blog » openSUSE 11.0

k:blog » openSUSE 11.0 — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:38:09 +0000

[...] után a SOLV fájlokban történt változások, valamint az új solver szignifikáns teljesítménynövekedést eredményezettés kevesebb memóriát igényel összehasonlítva a Smarttal és a [...]

By: Sandy Armstrong: Busy busy busy | Developer Home

Sandy Armstrong: Busy busy busy | Developer Home — Thu, 22 May 2008 22:28:34 +0000

[...] Zypper is wicked fast, and is now my favorite way to manage packages. All it lacks is tab-completion of package names, but running zypper se somepackage is so fast that I don’t mind too much. [...]

By: Duncan Mac-Vicar P. » Blog Archive » The greatest unknown openSUSE 11.0 package management feature

Tue, 20 May 2008 22:22:21 +0000

[...] improvements like the fast installation, how YaST became sexy, how YaST/ZYpp/zypper became fast, how YaST/ZYpp/zypper performs better than others and even that our solver is also really [...]

By: Anon

Anon — Sun, 18 May 2008 21:46:24 +0000

If the repo is on your local disk make sure you echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches as root to drop the kernel’s file cache before the start of a run (otherwise later runs may have the advantage of not doing disk I/O)

By: stick

stick — Sun, 18 May 2008 12:53:15 +0000

I was very surprised that my home project (home:prusnak) appeared between the test repositories. What was so interesting about it that it made to the list?

By: F2

F2 — Sat, 17 May 2008 16:24:54 +0000

cool - you have Gravatar support I see

By: F2

F2 — Sat, 17 May 2008 16:24:19 +0000

Great work Duncan!

By: duncan

duncan — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:18:35 +0000

( and you will see that you could test those cases yourself we provide the complete simulation environment )

By: duncan

duncan — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:18:03 +0000

For those smart test cases see my new posts:

Solving the famous “smart” case 2

Solving the famous “smart” case 3

By: Me

Me — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:08:53 +0000

I had problems with the last libzypp on 10.3, so I’m not going to test it at least until 11.0 final. But just tested yum 3.2.14 with these five RPMs… and yum still tries to install all five files when only BCD is needed to install A!!!