Don’t know if this has been discussed in detail yet, but I’ve seen a few people mention how YaST is faster in openSUSE 11 than in older versions. I’m wondering how much faster. In my 10.3, I load YaST, click on “Software Management,” and have to go do other things while I wait for it to load, even with the repos set to not refresh. Can you tell me, how does YaST package management’s speed now compare to other distros’ pm systems, such as Synaptic in Ubuntu?
My single biggest complaint with SUSE since I started using it with 9.3 has been that package management is way too slow. Has that really been fixed in 11.0?
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> Howdy all,
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> Don’t know if this has been discussed in detail yet, but I’ve seen a
> few people mention how YaST is faster in openSUSE 11 than in older
> versions. I’m wondering how much faster. In my 10.3, I load YaST,
> click on “Software Management,” and have to go do other things while
> I wait for it to load, even with the repos set to not refresh. Can
> you tell me, how does YaST package management’s speed now compare to
> other distros’ pm systems, such as Synaptic in Ubuntu?
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> My single biggest complaint with SUSE since I started using it with
> 9.3 has been that package management is way too slow. Has that really
> been fixed in 11.0?
>
> (Celeron 2.8 GHz, 1 GB RAM)
>
>
Hi
This is on a VIA 1GHz machine;
artigo:~ # time zypper ref
Repository ‘Packman Repository’ is up to date.
Repository ‘openSUSE-11.0-Oss’ is up to date.
Repository ‘Main Repository (OSS)’ is up to date.
Repository ‘Main Repository (NON-OSS)’ is up to date.
Repository ‘Updates for 11.0’ is up to date.
Repository ‘openSUSE-11.0-Non-Oss’ is up to date.
Repository ‘openSUSE-DVD 11.0’ is up to date.
All repositories have been refreshed.
real 0m12.700s
user 0m0.660s
sys 0m0.248s
Timing on yast2 sw_single is a little longer, but only a few seconds.
The speed is amazing if you are used to the times of previous versions. With 12 repositories YaST’s Sofrware Management only takes 10-20 seconds from click to open on my system.
First time during the day is ~12 secs and I have 15+ repo’s to update.
Say I need to install something later in that case it is less than 2 secs, really fast, I like YaST again (hated it for years).
PS On many discussion boards and forums where openSuSE 11.0/KDE4.0 are duscussed one can see post from people who are beating on YaST, obviously they have not tried openSuSE110./KDE4.0
Whoa! So you’re telling me YaST fully refreshes all your repos in just 12 seconds the first time, and then knows not to refresh them again for the rest of the day?? That is so sweet! Too bad KDE 4.1 isn’t out yet or I’d totally switch.
Repository ‘oBS::artwork:wallpapers’ is up to date.
Repository ‘oBS::KDE:KDE3’ is up to date.
Repository ‘oBS::KDE:Backports’ is up to date.
Repository ‘oS::distribution:oss’ is up to date.
Repository ‘oS::distribution:non-oss’ is up to date.
Repository ‘oS::distribution:debug’ is up to date.
Repository ‘oS::update’ is up to date.
Repository ‘oSC::Packman’ is up to date.
Repository ‘oSC::VideoLan’ is up to date.
Repository ‘oSC::nVidia’ is up to date.
Repository ‘oBS::openSUSE:Tools’ is up to date.
Repository ‘oBS::KDE:KDE4:STABLE:Desktop’ is up to date.
Repository ‘oBS::KDE:KDE4:STABLE:Community’ is up to date.
Repository ‘oBS::KDE:KDE4:STABLE:Extra-Apps’ is up to date.
Repository ‘oBS::games’ is up to date.
Repository ‘oBS::devel:tools:building’ is up to date.
Repository ‘oBS::KDE:Community’ is up to date.
All repositories have been refreshed.
real 0m4.384s <— only 4 sec !
user 0m0.380s
sys 0m0.208s
And yast sw_single take only ~5 or 6 sec :)(laptop, 2GHz, 1 Go ram, 2 years old).
openSUSE is so faaaaast now !
Well, I just installed OpenSUSE 11 from DVD iso. I am switching from Ubuntu and must say that the package manager Yast2 is horribly slow.
It never finished ‘refreshing’ packages.DU.gz (not sure why I need DU language).
It has been sitting on downloading eclipse.archdep.platform.commons (66 mb d/l) for better than 5 mins now and this is on a fiber connection with 7 mb down speed.
says on average 29.1 KB/s
can someone explain that to me? Do I have any options for telling it to get the info from a mirror?
