Why is rpm -qa | grep openoffice.org2 soooo slow?

[Rodd Clarkson]

I repeat... Why is rpm -qa | grep openoffice.org2 soooo slow?

It eventually turns out some output, but it takes the better part of a
couple of minutes (very subjective, but I managed to talk to my wife
about something and then type this email and it still isn't finished, so
it's a reasonable amount of time.)  Actually a couple of minutes is
bloody generous.

After waiting so long i decided to do a real test, so here it is...

[rodd at localhost database]$ time rpm -qa | grep openoffice.org2
openoffice.org2-impress-1.9.77-1
openoffice.org2-core-1.9.77-1
openoffice.org2-xsltfilter-1.9.77-1
openoffice.org2-writer-1.9.77-1
openoffice.org2-graphicfilter-1.9.77-1

real    6m28.496s
user    0m3.070s
sys     0m0.559s
[rodd at localhost database]$



Rodd