Re: [opensuse] What the hell does zypper

2008-01-23 Thread David C. Rankin
Carlos E. R. wrote: The Tuesday 2008-01-22 at 07:53 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: ... After making those two modifications, you will not experience any more slowdown during the first 5-10 minutes after login. Online update and beagle are the problems. Ha! You forget 'locate' and

Re: [opensuse] What the hell does zypper

2008-01-22 Thread David C. Rankin
Thierry de Coulon wrote: Hello, Since I installed 10.3, I notice an awfull lot of disc activities during the, say, five minutes following boot. I've suspected beagle,but if I run top I see that the culprit seems to be zypper. I can't figure out what it's doing, but it's eating up to 97% of

Re: [opensuse] What the hell does zypper

2008-01-22 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2008-01-22 at 07:53 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: ... After making those two modifications, you will not experience any more slowdown during the first 5-10 minutes after login. Online update and beagle are the problems. Ha! You

[opensuse] What the hell does zypper

2008-01-21 Thread Thierry de Coulon
Hello, Since I installed 10.3, I notice an awfull lot of disc activities during the, say, five minutes following boot. I've suspected beagle,but if I run top I see that the culprit seems to be zypper. I can't figure out what it's doing, but it's eating up to 97% of my CPU time at moments.

Re: [opensuse] What the hell does zypper

2008-01-21 Thread Joe Sloan
Thierry de Coulon wrote: Hello, Since I installed 10.3, I notice an awfull lot of disc activities during the, say, five minutes following boot. I've suspected beagle,but if I run top I see that the culprit seems to be zypper. I can't figure out what it's doing, but it's eating up to

Re: [opensuse] What the hell does zypper

2008-01-21 Thread Bryen
libzyp is the backend for zypper and software updates. When you boot your computer, your computer is checking for any updates. I'd want this kept on so I can be aware of any security notices. Yours may be slower because of the number of repositories you have enabled that zypper searches for

Re: [opensuse] What the hell does zypper

2008-01-21 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2008-01-21 at 20:20 +0100, Thierry de Coulon wrote: I've done some search, but I am not sure if I could reduce zypper's activity, or simply remove it? Seems to be used by Yast2 for package management, but can Yast2 do without? It's

Re: [opensuse] What the hell does zypper

2008-01-21 Thread JB2
On Mon 21 January 08 13:43, Bryen wrote: snip Please don't top-post. -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Benjamin Franklin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Re: [opensuse] What the hell does zypper

2008-01-21 Thread Bryen
On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 20:04 -0600, JB2 wrote: On Mon 21 January 08 13:43, Bryen wrote: snip Please don't top-post. My apologies. I normally don't top-post as you can see evidence from my previous postings. But, as mentioned in a different thread, I had just been finished writing a