On 4/16/2008 1:52 PM, James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
Karl Cunningham wrote:
Brand new install onto old hardware (PII-450) with KDE and doing an
update of all packages with Yumex. This might normally take an hour to
download and update, but the progress bars stop moving and downloading
stops if the mouse is stable for a few minutes. Move the mouse and it
works again for a while.
I've seen this before on other machines but ignored it. On this slow
machine it's getting aggravating though; I have to babysit the process.
Any idea what the problem is and if there's anything to be done about it?
I've not seen that exact symptom, but I do notice that yumex has some
strange interaction between cpu usage (high-usage; maybe that's just yum
itslf?) and X responsiveness (low; including screen refresh,
especially). Maybe it reflects some deficient python programming in yumex?
On a lower-rank CPU, maybe sticking with yum might work better?
Even on my AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ running F7, I often decide
to limit my other activities while yum update is in process.
It finally finished with a lot of mouse jiggling on my part. I did
notice that pressing the ctrl key on the keyboard had the same effect as
moving the mouse. Made me think it was maybe going into standby mode.
I'll try some other things to see what happens.
It seems yumex takes a lot of resources to build lists and populate the
window with the thousands of packages available for selection. If I
don't need to browse I normally use yum, but in this case was using
yumex to see just how slow it would be on this old machine.
Karl
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