Creating an rpm repository using 'createrepo' on an RHS volume results in taking a long time to finish, why?
Issue
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Creating an rpm repository using 'createrepo' on an RHS volume results in taking a long time to finish, why?
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Running 'createrepo' on a directory containing rpm package shipped with RHEL takes more than 14 hours to finish. The rpms are in a directory on a GlusterFS volume.
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The same operation will finish within 3 minutes on a local file systems.
#sudo createrepo -d --update --skip-stat .
13093/13093 - wget-1.12-1.12.el6_5.x86_64.rpm
Saving Primary metadata
Saving file lists metadata
Saving other metadata
Generating sqlite DBs
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All the time spent waiting is spent in building the sqlite databases, and there is a large amount of lseek() followed by read() or write() to the DB files.
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On a local file system :
# time sudo createrepo -d --update --skip-stat .
13093/13093 - java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel-1.7.0.51-2.4.4.1.el6_5.x86_64.rpm
Saving Primary metadata
Saving file lists metadata
Saving other metadata
Generating sqlite DBs
Sqlite DBs complete
real 2m20.958s
user 2m12.991s
sys 0m7.877s
Environment
- Red Hat Storage Server 3.0
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