Smart slow with rpms on Amazon S3

[Rohit]

I have the OS rpms on Amazon S3, using s3fs to expose them to the smart. Smart takes a long time to update the cache. Any ideas?

[netmask (netmask)]

If s3fs is some kind of remote directory, probably Smart is taking a while to copy the files.

Copy the repodata directory and time it (time cp /from/repodata .), them (time smart update) and paste results here.

[Rohit (wicked-willy)]

Actually, it is setup as an rpm-dir, so no repodata. Hmm, maybe I should create a repo, and that might be faster.

smart channel --add local-EL-rpms name="Oracle Enterprise Linux RPMs" priority=1 manual=true type=rpm-dir path=/mnt/installs/OEL/Server/ -y;

[local-EL-rpms]
type = rpm-dir
name = Oracle Enterprise Linux RPMs
manual = yes
priority = 1
path = /mnt/installs/OEL/Server/

[netmask (netmask)]

Yes, please, try creating a metadata with createrepo. Using as rpm-dir will make it slow because Smart needs to read every package's headers, and if it's a remotely mounted directory, it should take a long while.