why doesn't yum cache anything?

[Sean Middleditch]

On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 22:50 -0800, Jamie Zawinski wrote:
> Sean Middleditch wrote:
> > 
> > The problem you're perceiving (slow operation as yum starts up) isn't at
> > all due to lack of caching, but perhaps very inefficient handling of the
> > cache - a lot of data has to be parsed and such, when it could perhaps
> > be stored in a more ready-to-process format.
> 
> It takes *nearly a minute* to do that!  I'm on a 2GHz machine.
> If it's not hitting the net, what's it doing, raytracing?

That or maybe an embedded SETI at home client...?

It only takes a handful of seconds on my machine, which is only 1.5ghz.
Yum is *very* RAM intensive, so if you're low there, that might be the
slow down...?

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