yum is extremely slow

[jludwig]

On Wednesday 28 September 2005 23:05, Alan E. Davis wrote:
> My first few days with FC3 on a dual Opteron x86_64 system.
>
> Yum is excruciatingly slow. Is this normal?
>
> When doing
> # yum update
> yum grabs most of CPU in doing "Transition Test", the system bogs down,
> huge lags.
>
> Perhaps I've screwed things up by updating earlier? However, ever since I
> got the machine, yum is very slow.
>
> APT:
>
> I tried to install apt, which is, as always, extremely responsive. But
> apt-get offered to remove hundreds of packages, so I gave up on that.
>
> I would appreciate any assistance in getting started on getting packages
> into the system.
>
> Alan Davis
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This also depends on how many mirrors you have in your repos or config file