yum very slow

[Jeff Spaleta]

On 5/11/05, Richard Hally <rhally at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Excluding Packages in global exclude list
> Finished
> (wait an hour + )
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages..
> 
> During the wait, there is continuous disk activity.  and no network
> activity.
> This has been going on for a while (it didn't just start today)
> I did a yum clean all to see if it would help but it did not.

that's fascinatingly different than what I'm seeing. How much memory
do you have.. and how much memory is the yum process using during that
(wait an hour+)  I'm definitely not experiencing this on my rawhide
box.

-jef