RE: Speed of current server

Check and see what your network speed is with ftp or nfs. Based on the
performance here, I suspect you're not seeing a Current problem.


On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 16:24, Dennis Pinckard wrote:
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> Ok, I change the 'useNoSSLForPackages' to 1 and restarted the update
> process.  Now I'm getting 6k/second.  Hmmm.
> 
> All of these machines are in a test environment.  The file server is
> a single processor (1GHz PIII) w/512MB RAM and about 220GB of
> storage.  About the only thing on it right now is current and the
> redhat updates.  It also runs samba and openldap, but no one is using
> it.  The laptop is a IBM thinkpad 390x 500Mhz PIII w/512MB ram.  Just
> installed redhat 7.2 last night.  up2date is attempting to bring all
> of the packages up to date at once.
> 
> Could it be that the number of packages selected is causing a
> problem?
> 
> I forced an update of just up2date since the original version didn't
> include the 'useNoSSLForPackages' in the config file.  Only the
> Kernel and 100dpi &75dpi fonts are excluded.  (Anyone know why these
> fonts are also excluded?  My exclude list only has kernel*; listed. 
> Happens when updating from redhat as well.)
> 
> 
> 
> - -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel P. Stasinski [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 3:02 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Current-server] Speed of current server
> 
> 
> > In general, right now performance is pretty bad.
> 
> Setting 'useNoSSLForPackages=1' in the up2date config speeded up
> the update process by an order of magnitude.
> 
> Daniel P. Stasinski
> Software Engineer
> Mayor Pharmaceutical Laboratories
> [email protected]
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