On 09/24/2009 11:31 PM, Seth Vidal wrote:
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Ben Boeckel wrote:
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> Seth Vidal wrote:
>>> Does yum-presto make use of multiple cores when rebuilding the
> RPMs?
>>> (My machines only have one, so I can't tell.)
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>> other than the xz compression part I believe most of the time is
>> disk bound, not cpu bound.
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>> -sv
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> The rpmrebuild operation has saturated one of my 3.0GHz Intel Core
> 2 Duo cores for at least a minute on large updates, so my guess is
> that that part is not multithreaded and CPU bound.
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right, currently - using xz -6 - which is using more cpu.
Running {make,apply}deltaiso always maxes out my 2.7 GHz CPU, even
between ISOs with RPMs using Gzip. I'll check what happens next time
it's doing a delta rebuild during a F11 update.