[Yum] yum check-update performance slow

[James Antill]

Mike McIntyre <mikemci at ca.ibm.com> writes:

> Novell provides a yum-2.4.2-13.4 rpm package on a SLES 10 SDK that were 
> are using on SLES 10 SP1 zlinux s390x systems.  We use Novell Subscription 
> Management Tool (SMT) on a nightly basis to download SLES rpm updates and 
> execute createrepo.  First execution of yum check-update is really slow 
> performance as shown below with 1012.65 +  2184.95 equal to about 52 
> minutes.

 This is all turning the xml into SQLite, do you have
yum-metadata-parser installed? CentOS-4 comes with yum-2.4.3 and
yum-metadata-parser-1.0.

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James Antill -- james at and.org