DVD F14 -> F15 Problems

[Garry T. Williams]

On Sunday, May 29, 2011 13:44:56 Garry T. Williams wrote:
> I think the rpm database gets into a state that needs attention.  This
> fixed it:
> 
>     sudo rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.001 /var/lib/rpm/__db.002 \
> 	    /var/lib/rpm/__db.003 /var/lib/rpm/__db.004
>     sudo rpm --rebuilddb
> 
> After that, yum operations sped up an order of magnitude.

This is not a problem with rpm.  The "work-around" above seemed to
have fixed the poor performance, but it was back again after any
update.

The system was grinding away on lots of I/O.  Upon further
investigation, I think this was a btrfs bug.  The problem does not
reproduce since I updated to kernel-2.6.38.7-30.fc15.x86_64 from
updates-testing.

-- 
Garry Williams