Is it possible to speed up yum.

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 01:14 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:

> I decided to run it as well just to see what it would be like on my own
> system..
> 
> [root at scrappy ~]# yum clean all
> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
> Cleaning up Everything
> [root at scrappy ~]# yum -d3 info yum | grep 'time:'
> Config time: 0.193
> rpmdb time: 0.000
> pkgsack time: 27.652

 this is where it updated/verified the metadata.


> [root at scrappy ~]# yum -d3 info yum | grep 'time:'
> Config time: 0.191
> rpmdb time: 0.000
> pkgsack time: 0.396

and here it was cached.


-sv