why doesn't yum cache anything?

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 00:12 -0800, Jamie Zawinski wrote:
> Sean Middleditch wrote:
> > 
> > It only takes a handful of seconds on my machine, which is only 1.5ghz.
> > Yum is *very* RAM intensive, so if you're low there, that might be the
> > slow down...?
> 
> By "a handful of seconds" do you mean "20"?  I think an acceptable 
> number would be, like, "3", but I'm seeing anywhere from 19 to 64, 
> on four different FC3 machines on two different networks:
> 



on my speedstepped to 600mhz laptop with 768M of ram:

time yum list '*mtr*'
Setting up Repo:  updates-released
Setting up Repo:  extras
Setting up Repo:  base
Reading repository metadata in from local files
updates-re: ################################################## 408/408
extras    : ################################################## 623/623
base      : ################################################## 1652/1652
Installed Packages
mtr.i386                                 2:0.54-10
installed
Available Packages
mtr-gtk.i386                             2:0.54-10              base

real    0m16.929s
user    0m5.974s
sys     0m0.531s


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