[Yum] yum performance

Farkas Levente lfarkas at bppiac.hu
Fri Apr 30 16:05:50 UTC 2004


seth vidal wrote:
> Dep resolution appears to be a lot faster now and after I'm happy with
> how it is working I'm planning on writing some routines to pre-resolve
> package deps before going into rpm at all.
> Memory use should be a lot lower now, too. The trick will always be
> this, though: The more repositories you use, the more memory and time
> yum will require. It has to traverse all of those packages in all of
> those repositories and that takes time and memory.
> 
> So if you have 10 repositories in your yum.conf with 2000 packages each,
> expect to wait.

that's the problem! IMHO 10 repositories shouldn't have to be a big 
deal. is there any way (even dirty) to speed up dep resolution in that 
case? eg. if I create one common repository (one headers dir) form 20, 
that it becomes faster? or...

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