Why is yum slow

User Name. Remember Me? Fedora This forum is for the discussion of the Fedora Project. View Public Profile. View Review Entries. Visit AnthonyM's homepage! Find More Posts by seabass Posting Rules. Similar Threads. Yum very slow on FC3. Yum Errors in parsing, whats wrong here yum. Main Menu. Login Register. Will have to try swapping the disks out and see if the problem persists.

I may have exaggerated the extent of the problem a bit though; though if one of the packages is the kernel or something similarly large, it's true. Also, did Red Hat hire the guy who wrote the windows file transfer dialogue and have him write the yum presto countdown thing? Re: YUM is super super slow No that is not the problem. I have a 2. I recently updated from fc14 to fc16 and the performance of YUM is considerably slower ofcourse in comparison to apt-get it was slow in fc14 as well but one could live with it.

Now, I am doing "yum info" and really think about it before I issue the command. I do not want to make this rocket science, but that is my opinion. Re: YUM is super super slow I agree with marko that something else is wrong with your system if yum is that slow.

Yum is very fast for me in F I don't use any yum plugins, so that may be part of it, but I doubt that's the main reason. Log in No account? Create an account. Remember me. James Antill illiterat wrote, - 05 - 21 James Antill illiterat - 05 - 21 Previous Share Flag Next.

Benchmarking "makecache": If you are benchmarking the makecache command in yum, you have utterly failed. One big repo. Post as a guest Name.

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