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

Thomas Cameron thomas.cameron at camerontech.com
Tue Feb 15 09:03:03 UTC 2005


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rodd Clarkson" <rodd at clarkson.id.au>
To: <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 2:15 AM
Subject: Why is rpm -qa | grep openoffice.org2 soooo slow?


>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

What kind of system are you using?  What type of CPU?  Speed?  Amount of 
memory?  Type and speed of disk?

Thomas 




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