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