[Yum] Its just a little slow

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Thu Jul 15 17:21:18 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 12:00, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> yum is somewhat slow on VIA C3 processor based boxes - ie I have an EPIA
> with C3 800Mhz here.   Installing a package can take 10-15 minutes in
> the dependency resolution stage (I have a few repositories in the list
> but not a huge number).
> 
> If theres something I can do to help trace the problem let me know.
> 
> If it helps, I had some perl scripts which ran horribly slow on this box
> in perl.  Adding
> 	use integer;
> 	use bytes;
> made a huge difference (use bytes turns off the UTF-8 string handling
> and I think its that which has a serious effect on speed).

The depresolution is significantly sped up in the yum-HEAD code. I'm
still working on that (among other things). When it's ready for testing
I'll make sure everyone hears about it.


-sv





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