[Yum-devel] yum 3.0.2

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 17:16 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 23:09 +0100, Terje Rosten wrote:
> > * seth vidal
> > | 
> > 
> > | I think I got it.
> > | Terje, Tim, please take a look at the patch here:
> > | https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum-cvs-commits/2007-January/001255.html
> > | 
> > | I did timing tests and it reduces the returnObsoletes call on my system
> > | from 30s to 3s
> > 
> > Yes, it's better, however 3.0.2 plus patch is still much slower than
> > 3.0.1 on 'yum install xpdf' with warm cache.
> 
> B/c 3.0.2 is performing a whole other type of check that 3.0.1 isn't.
> Instead of just looking at all the obsoletes whole sale. It taking the
> list of obsoletes, removing from them any package which is not of the
> newest set, then performing the updates setup check.
> 
> I'll see what I can do to trim it out a little further.
> 
> 
> > The this command:
> > 
> > $ time python yummain.py -y install xpdf
> > 
> > I get:
> > 
> > 3.0.1: 9 sec
> > 3.0.2 + plus patch: 15 sec
> > 
> > >From the profiling data I see lots of call to returnNewestByName, it's
> > called over 8500 times.
> right - that'd be once per package in the obsdict. I think I know how to
> streamline that.
> 
> 
> I'll let you know what I come up with.

okay - I just checked in another attempt.
https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum-cvs-commits/2007-January/001257.html

can you tell me what you get from that with your profiler. The slow down
shouldn't be from so many calls to returnNewestByName()

-sv