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.)
>
> other than the xz compression part I believe most of the time is
> disk bound, not cpu bound.
>
> -sv
>
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.
right, currently - using xz -6 - which is using more cpu.
-sv