rpm kills the machine with fsync
Bug #633686 reported by
Jeff Johnson
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
RPM |
Confirmed
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High
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Unassigned | ||
Fedora |
Won't Fix
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Medium
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Bug Description
Tracker
Changed in rpm: | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
tags: | added: fedora rpmdb |
Changed in rpm: | |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in fedora: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → Won't Fix |
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I upgraded one of my machines from F10 to Rawhide, and during this I notice that rpm tends to be extremely excessive in its use of fsync. The machine uses a fairly average flash disk, and on this it took over 12 hours to remove a couple of hundred packages. Doing an strace reveals that rpm keeps calling fdatasync() constantly, something that completely kills the performance.