[Yum-devel] yum on an olpc machine (slooooooooooow)

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 09:49 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:

> Heh, I forgot about compression completely :) That way things seem a whole 
> lot better:
> 1619533 Dec 21 09:17 primary.xml.gz.sqlite.orig.gz
> 1741906 Dec 21 09:18 primary.xml.gz.sqlite.gz
> 
> 1223076 Dec 21 09:17 primary.xml.gz.sqlite.orig.bz2
> 1299333 Dec 21 09:18 primary.xml.gz.sqlite.bz2
> 

yah, that looks a good bit better.

If we changed the filelists db format to be one file per row so we were
storing:

pkgID, full filepath/name

I'm curious how that looks size-wise and what sort of performance we see
out of it with an index on pkgID.

-sv