Fixing yum performance

[Rex Dieter]

Rex Dieter wrote:

> 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. Normally, it takes
>> 2-3 minutes just to install a single package. most of the time, this
>> latency will take place between yum first being invoked, and the part
>> where I am asked to accept that the packages are downloaded and
>> installed. It thus seems to be a DB issue.
>> 
>> Is there any way to fix this??
> 
> some things that help me from time to time:
> 
> 1. purge yumdb
> rm -rf /var/cache/yum/yumdb/*

arg, make that /var/lib/yum/yumdb/*

-- rex