On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:21:42 +0200, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > A recurring problem I have had for several Fedora releases now is that Yum > over time becomes slower and slower as more packages are installed. This is > of course to be expected due to the DB growing, but in my case Yum has now > become so slow that it is almost unusable. Normally, it takes 2-3 minutes > just to install a single package. most of the time, this latency will take > place between yum first being invoked, and the part where I am asked to > accept that the packages are downloaded and installed. It thus seems to be > a DB issue. > > Is there any way to fix this?? You could find out the cause. If it's reproducible/measurable for you, explore the subdirectories in /var/lib/yum/ and clean up as much as you like. Decide yourself which data you are not interested in. This stuff is independent of the RPM DB, so you would only lose some details when running "yum" queries, "yum history …", "yumdb …" e.g. the repo a package came from. Especially in /var/lib/yum/yumdb/ lots of data pile up for installed packages. When have you last run "yum history new"? If would start a new history, but old history files are kept in /var/lib/yum/history/ nevertheless here: # du -hs /var/lib/yum/history 17M /var/lib/yum/history # yum history new Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit history new # du -hs /var/lib/yum/history 17M /var/lib/yum/history # find /var/lib/yum/history | wc -l 1261 If that doesn't lead to anything: Does it also affect ordinary Yum queries (yum list ..., yum info ...) as well as "yum -C ..." operation (cache-only)? Or do you face issues with network repository access? -- Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle) - Linux 3.4.4-5.fc17.x86_64 loadavg: 0.58 0.67 0.50 -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
