fedup performance

[Alex G.]

On 07/02/2013 08:28 PM, Neal Becker wrote:
> Not d/l speed related.  I just want to share.  I update a very fast 8 core 
> server, with a conventional disk drive.  Took 2-3 hours, not including d/l.
> 
> I update my laptop which has an ssd (and MORE packages).  Took 10-15 minutes.
> 
I think this might simply have to do with rpm running ldconfig (a very
disk IO expensive operation) for a large number of packages. I'm not
sure yum/rpm has deferred ldconfig processing.

DISCLAIMER: I may be very wrong. Please don't quote me on this.

Alex