One Hour Later Pup Fails

[David Timms]

Benjy Grogan wrote:
> On 6/9/06, pribyl at lowlevel.cz <pribyl at lowlevel.cz> wrote:
>> Take a look here e.g.:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189483
> 
> Interesting.  So it should actually keep a cache of anything it
> downloads.
if keepcache=0 then
   nothing is kept (in simple terms)
else
   kept forever.
> Maybe I didn't notice that the second try at updating was
> a little quicker.
For me I prefer the older default where all headers/packages are kept, 
and you manually clean the cache with yum clean z.
So I set keepcache=1 in /etc/yum.conf
If you install a cpu/disk/network monitor like gkrellm, you can get a 
good idea about when yum is mainly cpu, disk or network intensive.

Another conf item to look for is metadata_expire=1800 (by default). see 
man yum.conf, /{search} ,metadata, n {ext}, to find out about it. To 
save yum regetting the repo metadata on a repeated run that occurs after 
the expire time, you can set the time a lot longer, eg a day; don't 
forget to set it back to the default afterwards.

DaveT.