[nzlug] yum search format

[Patrick Connolly]

Somewhere about Fri, 26-Oct-2007 at 01:41PM +0200 (give or take),
Martin Bähr wrote:

|> On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 08:51:54PM +1300, Patrick Connolly wrote:
|> > However, it's still much slower in my experience than the equivalent
|> > aptitude call.  
|> 
|> did you try that with the same hardware and systemload?

They are somewhat different, but not as dramatically different as the
difference in the time taken.  

It takes scarcely more than 2 seconds to get a result from 
 aptitude search vim 

That's on on a minimally altered Mepis 6.5 installation on a 1.6 Ghz
dual core machine with 1 Gb of RAM.

yum -C list "vim*" takes more like 10 seconds.  That's on an AMD_64
system (2Ghz) running FC6 with 2 Gb RAM and with only a few different
things installed, and with both machines idling (to use an automotive
analogy).

Running top, I could see yum was using up to 75% of processing
resources.  I couldn't get a corresponding reading for aptitude
because it finished too quickly.

Could this be a case of the 64 bit operation being slower because it's
like using a truck to do a job that a motor bike could do easily?

I'm curious more than concerned.

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