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

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 18:09 +0300, cornel panceac wrote:
> 
> 
> 2008/5/2 seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org>:
>         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.
>         
>         
> 
> :) that's what i thought, only i was wondering what was he doing while
> he was sitting there, using ram but not cpu ...
> 
> and yes, it's f5>6>7>8>rawhide. 

Just for fun (and this will take a while, I think)
run:

rpm --rebuilddb

and see if any of the response times get better.

-sv