Proposed F13 feature: drop separate updates repository

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 17:58:24 -0500,
  Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> 
> I tested it on our backend to be sure. getting the complete pkglist
> goes from taking 5 minutes to take 30s.
> 
> yes, I said 5 minutes.

Have you tried any of the tunning knobs to have the directory cache be
alotted more space or given higher priority? For example:

vfs_cache_pressure
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Controls the tendency of the kernel to reclaim the memory which is used for
caching of directory and inode objects.

At the default value of vfs_cache_pressure=100 the kernel will attempt to
reclaim dentries and inodes at a "fair" rate with respect to pagecache and
swapcache reclaim.  Decreasing vfs_cache_pressure causes the kernel to prefer
to retain dentry and inode caches.  Increasing vfs_cache_pressure beyond 100
causes the kernel to prefer to reclaim dentries and inodes.