ehlo Posted November 4, 2005 Share Posted November 4, 2005 Why is yum so slow? Doing a yum list *php* can take up to half an hour! I run linux under a virtual machine. Things may run differently if I ran them under a real machine. Everything else runs at a great speed on the VM and its cpu usage is usually under 10%. Why is yum so slow? If I am just searching I dont need it to redownload package lists etc. Is there anything that can speed it up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dotRoot Posted November 5, 2005 Share Posted November 5, 2005 Well you can't really speed up yum with a tweak I don't think. I have been pressing people on RedHat distros to use Apt4RPM instead of yum. It is faster as well, because it doesn't reacquire a new package list until told to do so and it parses the list much faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehlo Posted November 5, 2005 Author Share Posted November 5, 2005 Thanks, I install apt4rpm later (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted November 5, 2005 Veteran Share Posted November 5, 2005 I have both yum and apt4rpm on my Fedora box. Yum takes about twice as long (I think it completely re-reads and re-processes all the headers from scratch every time), but it does not take a half hour for anything! When I use yum, it just goes on in the background, so I don't care if it takes 1 minute or 2 minutes. I think you may have other things going on there, as 30 minutes is not normal. What was the command that takes so long, or is it everything? Does a yum update take that long, too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehlo Posted November 5, 2005 Author Share Posted November 5, 2005 yum update doesnt take as long. The command was yum list perl* I think there might be a bit of network lag on the virtual machine but it shouldnt slow yum down as much as it does Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted November 5, 2005 Veteran Share Posted November 5, 2005 I have never used "yum list". If I am searchign the online repos, I would use yum search perl. It is quick. For checking installed apps, I would use rpm -qa | grep perl to query all items from the rpm database, and filter only hits containing "perl". Also fairly quick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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