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Performance

Pipelined download of packages

Issue tracked in Feature #305624

I found that YaST and zypper are affected by a performance problem that could be solved with a better usage of multithreading. When you want to install or update packages from network, all packages will be downloaded and installed one by one. This means that when you install a package, network connection will stay idle. I suggest the development team to have a separate thread to download all the required packages (hopefully using the same connection, I haven't read the code yet) while another thread actually installs the packages. Even on single-CPU (or single-core) systems, this will dramatically increase performance when installing several packages.

Operation

Multiple packagemanagement instances at one

You can't have more instances of packagemanagement running at once.

Usage

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