Ignore the past and you will fail Ignore the future and you have already failed. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David E. Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 22:48 Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: Ready to update?
> On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 08:05:29 -0600 > "Hoyt Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > install. All packages were security packages. Next I tried bug fixes > > and 11 out of 12 failed to install. Flustered I then selected all bug > > fixes and(191MB) failed to install very quickly (less than a minute). > > I called top > > You were using Mandrake update, right? The slow response might be due to > heavy I/O activity, or it could be the sign of large memory consumption. > You did mention that the system is not swapping, which of course is a > good thing, but depending on what you are trying to do, the underlying > engine can require a lot of think time to slog through all the > dependencies, comparing what you have on your system. A huge update > would maybe take several minutes (or longer) before it came back with > actual packages to install/upgrade. > > IME, I've had more success with urpmi than I ve had with Mandrake > update. The latter used to be very greedy for RAM, possibly that's been > addressed. > I'm using the cpu moniter applet and the modem lights applet to monitor things. The cpu is very inactive hardly works, except when installing a program then it fills the entire monitor. The moden lights indicates that the server is responding and sending information but there are no messages to advise me what is going on (I dont know what message 109 means or 180 17 or etc.). The major problem is that either some program times out and decides that it isnt going to get the rpm and a message appears that tells me that install cant read the sig. Cant open the rpm, which hasnt been downloaded because it quit before downloading. So I click continue and install and maybe it will download the rpm, maybe not but it finally does. I suspect the server is very busy but nothing tells me that it is, why doesnt the program switch servers if it is busy. This is possible because there are a lot of servers around the world. As you can tell I am flustered. Regards; Hoyt
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