Fixing yum performance

[Rex Dieter]

Christopher Svanefalk wrote:

> A recurring problem I have had for several Fedora releases now is that Yum
> over time becomes slower and slower as more packages are installed. This
> is of course to be expected due to the DB growing, but in my case Yum has
> now become so slow that it is almost unusable. Normally, it takes 2-3
> minutes just to install a single package. most of the time, this latency
> will take place between yum first being invoked, and the part where I am
> asked to accept that the packages are downloaded and installed. It thus
> seems to be a DB issue.
> 
> Is there any way to fix this??

some things that help me from time to time:

1. purge yumdb
rm -rf /var/cache/yum/yumdb/*

2. rebuild rpm database
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
rpm --rebuilddb

-- rex