[Yum] yum takes forever to "get going"

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 01:44 -0600, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
> I installed FC3 a computer and used yum-2.1.11 to update and install a bunch
> of stuff.  Then I moved the computer to a different location (different
> apartment) and then yum just got extremely slow.  Well, not really slow,
> but slow to startup.  There is near a 5 min wait between issuing the
> command and seeing the line "Setting up Install Process", but once it gets
> there, its as fast as ever.

remove all your mirrorlists from your .repo files in /etc/yum.repos.d
and tell me if the startup time gets better.

-sv