yum-presto plugin by default

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 18 21:51:35 UTC 2009


On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Jeff Spaleta<jspaleta at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Christopher Brown<snecklifter at gmail.com> wrote:
>> FWIW, I have also experienced zero problems with it and believe it
>> would be better enabled by default, retaining the option to disable.
>> Updates would get done faster and mirrors would be able to cope with
>> more connections, especially in the first push after release day... :)
>
> Only potential side effect is cpu consumption that the delta unpacking
> process requires.  User on single core systems may notice that unless
> presto renices itself down in priority.

Most users are using packagekit so the update process is reniced to 10
and the io prio is set to idle.




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