On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:12 PM, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan: >>> You already did that using "yum clean all". Note that "yum clean >>> packages" would probably have freed almost as much space without >>> removing yum metadata, which is why I suggested it earlier. > > Joel Rees: >> Good point. >> >> I personally like to avoid stale metadata, so I tend not to think >> beyond the "all" option, but the metadata will be necessary as soon as >> Aradnix needs to do even a yum info, so it's space that's not really >> freed even if it's freed. > > Not to mention that, barring faults, it's taken care of automatically. > If you don't need to renew the data, it's not renewed. And it will be > refreshed when it needs it. So, other than when fixing an actual > problem with your caching of data, it's a waste of time and bandwidth > (yours, and every mirror's) to manually fiddle with it. Yesterday's metadata: 15M Yesterday's downloads: 90M 17% additional bandwidth burden. Today, no downloads, so it would be nothing but overhead. I'm not sure, since the mirrors I usually connect to are on gigabit pipes (and my pipe is limited at 1Mbit), that 15 Megabytes (in about a minute and a half) three or four times a week constiutes an unreasonable burden on the infrastructure. I have had my cache clogged on occasion, preventing security updates from downloading, which is why I tend to use the clean all option. Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
