Fixing yum performance

[Konstantin Svist]

On 07/12/2012 02:21 AM, 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??

Check if you've installed yum-plugin-local -- it keeps a local copy of 
the repo and can take a while to regenerate the db on each run...