Mash slowness update

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Wed May 6 20:30:51 UTC 2015


On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 04:28:27PM -0600, Luke Macken wrote:
> On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 04:16:55PM -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> > So in debugging why mash is so slow. we had a realisation, one thing it was 
> > supposed to always be doing never worked.  and that is hardlinking the 
> > packages in /mnt/koji/mash to /mnt/koji/packages/ this is due to apache owning 
> > everything under /mnt/koji/packages and the compose processes all running as 
> > masher. the hardlink failed due to permission errors
> […]
> > the rawhide mash today took ~3 hours to put all the files into place in 
> […]
> > when run as apache in a test putting all the files in place in /mnt/koji/mash 
> > took ~4 minutes
> 
> Nice find, this is huge.

+1, every bit counts and this is a BIG bit.


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