yum very slow

[Warren Togami]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> 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.
> 

developmen: ################################################## 3770/3770
Added 135 new packages, deleted 137 old in 8.43 seconds
(wait about 2 minutes with 100% CPU and some disk activity)
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for kernel-devel to pack into transaction set.

Athlon64 3200+ x86_64 1GB RAM

Not quite an hour, but that's a long time to get stuck with no visible 
indication of what's happening.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com