Hola YaST hackers, recently I've upgraded my laptop from the ancient 11.1 to 11.3 and since then, YaST became slower than molasses. It's not my subjective impression only, I have some evidence to support that claim, though I have (so far) no clue why is this happening.
Watching the log, I noticed the whole thing hangs on importing some (random?) modules and the hangs last from 20-30 secs up to several minutes. After that, it imports some more modules and hangs again on importing something else ... and so on. Allright, so I deployed strace. Looking at its output, this command is fast: '/usr/lib/YaST2/bin/y2base $module qt' OTOH, this one is incredibly slow: '/sbin/yast2 $module' Watching strace output, lines like this scroll by for ages: [pid 8194] read(7, "b", 1) = 1 [pid 8194] read(7, "u", 1) = 1 [pid 8194] read(7, "s", 1) = 1 [pid 8194] read(7, ";", 1) = 1 OK, so obviously the more YCP files it has to parse, the longer it takes to launch. Comparing y2-users (lots of YCP files) with y2-inst_release_notes (relatively few YCP files), the former takes ~5 minutes to launch, while the latter needs only 5 seconds. Soo - this can't be a secret YaST feature, can it? :) Am I doing anything wrong? Did upgrade mess something up? If so, what? Has anyone seen something like this before (in bugzilla etc.)? If needed, I can make my laptop available if someone wants to play with it Greetings B. ( + her dolphin) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
