On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 09:44:43 -0600,
"Justin M. Forbes" <jmforbes(a)linuxtx.org> wrote:
As mentioned in the FUDCon kernel talk, we are trying to figure out
exactly what causes the massive slowdown for some people with debug
kernels. At this point, debug is completely off in the rawhide kernel.
Every update this week will turn on more debug options until we find out
which one is causing the slowdown. For this to work, we need people
testing rawhide proper (not rawhide-nodebug). So please, if you can
update daily and give us feedback when you hit a wall, we would really
appreciate it. Feedback should be sent to kernel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Recently I have seen yum slowness with kernel-PAE-3.8.0-0.rc3.git1.2.fc19.i686,
which was unexpected. I'm going to try an update using
kernel-PAE-3.8.0-0.rc4.git1.1.fc19.i686 a little later this morning and
see if I see the same thing. Previously I had only been seeing this with
debug kernels. I don't know if this time is due to the kernel or something
else.