yum requires a lot of time but not a lot of processor

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 17:58 +0300, cornel panceac wrote:


>         
>         
>         > up:Obs Init time: 43.131
>         > up:simple updates time: 10.574
>         > up:obs time: 0.155
>         > up:condense time: 0.000
>         > updates time: 153.256
>         
>         
>         What type of system is this? How much ram, etc?
> 
> pentium 150mhz , 48 megs of ram
> 

Ah ha.
yes,
so.

Given the machine and the memory available, those numbers look pretty
good, actually.

-sv