On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 4:18 PM, linux guy <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just a note to say that I installed the Fedora KDE arm image on my RPi 3
> from the link below using a Kingston class 10 SD card and it is running
> extremely slow.
> https://muug.ca/mirror/fedora/linux/releases/25/Spins/armhfp/images/Fedora-KDE-armhfp-25-1.3-sda.raw.xz

I use solely Samsung EVO or Sandisk Ultra and while not fast (it is
afterall a $35 computer) it's not bad.

> After the second boot, I opened a console and did a 'dnf update'.  With a
> fast ethernet connection, it has taken nearly 12 hours to complete.  It is
> currently in the   'top' shows nothing CPU usage to be 2.3% for the top
> process and nothing much for anthing else.  The dnf process occasionally
> pops up in the top list, using less than 1% of the cpu, though about 18% of
> memory.

Never seen it that bad, not even in Australia running over satellite.
The 4.9 kernel has some patches to improve MMC performance.

> Is there a zombie thread running somewhere ?

Your system only you can tell that.

> I'll investigate further once the update process is complete.

If you'd run it in screen you could have just forked another console
to investigate while it was running

> BTW: kudos for bringing Fedora to the RPi platform.  I'm so happy not to be
> building custom kernels and to be running the same distribution I use on my
> other computers.   Keep up the good work !
>
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