Fixing yum performance

[Tim]

On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 11:21 +0200, Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
> A recurring problem I have had for several Fedora releases now is that
> Yum over time becomes slower and slower as more packages are
> installed. This is of course to be expected due to the DB growing, but
> in my case Yum has now become so slow that it is almost unusable.

Asking the obvious question - have you installed tons of stuff that you
don't actually use or need?  (An install everything person.)

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