yum very slow

[Richard Hally]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:

>On 5/12/05, Richard Hally <rhally at mindspring.com> wrote:
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>>after removing primary.xml.gz, primary.xml.gz.sqlite and repomd.xml from
>>/var/cache/yum/development the problem has been solved. It looks like
>>the new  primary.xml.gz.sqlite file that was created is substantially
>>small (6.6mb vs 7.2mb) while the other recreated files are exactly the
>>same size.
>>    
>>
>
>Ah, man .... you didn't keep the old version of that
>primary.xml.gz.sqlite file did you?
>Now that you have narrowed down the problem.. it would have been
>interesting to poke at that file to see what was going wrong.
>
>-jef
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yup,  I kept it   = 8-)
it is 7218176 bytes.

Richard