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/*
2. rebuild rpm database
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
rpm --rebuilddb
-- rex