Bugzilla – Bug 159888
yast2 incredibly slow during sw_single startup
Last modified: 2006-07-26 11:55:05 UTC
I don't know why (maybe related to bug #159885) but the startup of sw_single is incredibly slow compared to the other yast2 modules. While the module starts the system is completely unusable. y2logs are attached at bug #159885.
I did not notice that, indeed, it starts up quite fast on my (slow) test machine, even the dependency-check takes only about 2 secs.
Martin, could it be a dup of #157535?
I don't think so. Althought the rpm installation is quite weird too, this is not problem of installing rpms. It takes about 15 seconds on my 1.5Ghz Centrino with 512MB RAM to start sw_single. I think this is quite much especially when other things are running quite fine. Killing zmd doesn't help in this case. strace is attached (maybe you will find something interesting there).
Created attachment 76027 [details] strace -fvvv -o sw_single.out yast2 sw_single
It initializes completely all sources and target, including the storage.
For maintainer
*** Bug 143231 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I have a powerful pc (AMD 64 3000, 1GB ram, hd 7200rpm SATA ), and some times the module sw_single is very slow. I have read the comment #4, I do not know as functions strace, but I have created a log like is described in the comment #4 (file 2006_06_19_sw_single.out.bz2 )
Created attachment 90408 [details] Log created with strace They have passed 5 ó 6 minutes until yast has started.
We can do hardly anything to avoid source and target initialization (as all the resolvables need to be available for the UI), but I will try to avoid storage initialization. However, this is already being tracked as bug 165833 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 165833 ***