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Martin Schlander schreef: > Den Sunday 22 April 2007 09:59:47 skrev Marcus Meissner: >> On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 12:06:54PM +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: >>> On Sun 22 Apr 2007 05:38:30 NZST +1200, Martin Schlander wrote: >>>> But the problem is not the downloading of updated metadata, which >>>> usually takes a few seconds tops. >>> Uhhm, you're talking about downloading the updates/repodata/*.xml.gz >>> files? For the 10.2 updates that's about 13MB currently. I'd be very >>> interested to hear how you download that over a dialup at a realistic >>> 3kbyte/s in "a few seconds tops". >> Its more like 5 MB. others.xml.gz is not downloaded usually. > > Also the update source is not relevant here is it? When opensuseupdater tells > you that updates are available the update repo has already been refreshed > hasn't it? So it won't need to download new metadata again at YOU startup. > > The "problem" is the other repos that most people add, Packman and Guru etc. - > and this is an even smaller download from what I can tell. > > But of course any download on dialup is big. I wonder how many people do > Windows-update or apt-get upgrade on dialup for comparison. > > I think for most users parsing metadata takes way longer than downloading > updated metadata. At least for me parsing metadata is perhaps 80% of package > manager startup time. I do have comparatively high bandwidth I guess (2 > mbit), but it's not like I'm on 100 mbit. And I also have an above average > machine I guess, and still parsing takes sooo long. > > Maybe it would still make sense to not update all repos at YOU startup if that > would be safe. But I still think many people confuse the metadata-parsing > with repo-updating. And I maintain that parsing is the biggest culprit. I support this, and i notice that the cpu consumption is enormous on start, and on and after finishing, i am forced to stop working, because the reaction-speed for my keybord has reduced to -20 secs. ( i mean that a keystroke is visible after 20 secs.) I mean i would realy don't care, if i would not notice any of the update/grades, but they are dominant, and force me to stop working, which is, at least to me, very disturbing... - -- Have a nice day, M9. Now, is the only time that exists. OS: Linux 2.6.18.8-01-default x86_64 Huidige gebruiker: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systeem: openSUSE 10.2 (X86-64) KDE: 3.5.5 "release 45.4" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGK25cX5/X5X6LpDgRApieAKDEF3WeS5/bj7dtOSLPlu4OPsyvqACgriSJ 7vrfY6kvnYU65zMM0sJdUy0= =Yw5C -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
