[Rpm-maint] [PATCH] [RFC] 33% speedup in RPM!

[Michael Schroeder]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 12:59:28AM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Testing used for the following patch:
> 
> - P4, 2Ghz
> - 512MB memory
> - local repos
> - upgrade a F7 GA chroot (866 packages, desktop install)
>   to updates + updates-testing, using yum
> - upgrades done on a fresh reboot (clean cache)
> 
> The attached patch shaves the run time for the full update from
> 22m37s to 15m19s. Even accounting for minor differences in disk
> location, that's a *significant* savings.

If you just want to speed up ldconfig, here's a glibc patch for you.
We've got it in SUSE Linux since SL10.0, no problems so far.

Cheers,
  Michael.

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Michael Schroeder                                   mls at suse.de
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF Markus Rex, HRB 16746 AG Nuernberg
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