RPM How I Loathe Thee

SysOp — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 04:15:27 +0000

Let me count the ways, here’s #2 (see the previous post on yum for #1)….

[root@vps0 security]# md5sum access.conf*
1ab9971e4ec0682b89aaff29fea6de9e  access.conf
1ab9971e4ec0682b89aaff29fea6de9e  access.conf.rpmnew
[root@vps0 security]#

Why the hell is it creating a .rpmnew file for an IDENTICAL *CONFIG* file? Hell even the (modification) timestamps are identical!

Dear yum, you suck.

SysOp — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 01:09:55 +0000

While doing a template fetch onto our Virtuozzo machine. A template fetch really just downloads every configured application (this is different from say EVERY application to create a mirror, it just downloads applications configured, and their dependencies). So it’s running yum in download-only mode.

[root@vps1 private]# vztop

vztop - 18:02:45 up 4 days, 17:30,  2 users,  load average: 1.29, 1.36, 1.28
Tasks: 372 total,   2 running, 370 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 13.3% us,  1.1% sy,  0.0% ni, 85.2% id,  0.1% wa,  0.1% hi,  0.2% si
Mem:  65881472k total, 22104056k used, 43777416k free,  1624648k buffers
Swap:  4192924k total,        0k used,  4192924k free, 17053276k cached

 CTID   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
    0 27254 root      25   0  308m 299m 4504 R  100  0.5  46:03.17 yum
    0 31593 root      15   0 89524 4672 2568 S    8  0.0   0:35.59 sshd

Seriously guys? 299MB? SERIOUSLY?

Not that it really matters on this machine. For those of you having trouble with the math, thats 64GB w/ around 42GB *free*, yes, same machine from the Serverpr0n article earlier. It’s still annoying. And, 100% CPU. Doing WHAT?! Hell if I know. YES THATS 45 MINUTES! At 2GHZ!

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RPM How I Loathe Thee

Dear yum, you suck.