On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, David W. Hodgins wrote: > > The problem with using "urpmi --auto-select" is that it increases i/o > and cpu usage for every execution of the check for updates by mgaapplet.
No, it doesn't need to use all repositories to check for updates. It can use "urpmq --updates --auto-select" to see what updates are available, and only use all repositories to install them. > On my 6 year old system 5 seconds for "urpmi.update --update" versus > 24 seconds for "urpmi --auto-select", when the system is up-to-date. It's not doing the same thing, so this comparison doesn't mean anything.
