[bt-devel] Excessive CPU consumption during module install

[Eeli Kaikkonen]

On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, Martin Gruner wrote:

> Eeli,
>
> can you do something about this?
>
> mg

I've been inactive and silent for a long time. Despite the fact that
I've no job ATM I've been busy traveling, taking care of personal
relations (my girlfriend is a school teacher and has long summer
holidays and we have to take advantage of that), reading theology, etc.

Thanks for everyone involved in this issue. I already guessed it has
something to do with the Sword library or the network connection. It
would be great if the library could be optimized if possible. If not, I
(we) have to make some other changes.

> > in parallel.  Someone more familiar with that... is there a reason why
> > we can't use a single thread to do the installs while another updates
> > the GUI?  Is parallel downloading and installing actually what's going
> > on, and it is worth the performance increase?  It sure doesn't seem
> > that it is, to me!
> >
> > --Greg

It depends on your network connection. When I coded and tested the
parallel installation I noticed that it gives great speed advantage when
downloading, even from one source. But then I didn't notice any huge
delays with threaded installation - maybe I just didn't try as many
modules at one time as you. This shows why testing by several people is
so important.

  Yours,
	Eeli Kaikkonen (Mr.), Oulu, Finland
	e-mail: eekaikko at mailx.studentx.oulux.fix (with no x)