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?? some things that help me from time to time: 1. purge yumdb rm -rf /var/cache/yum/yumdb/* 2. rebuild rpm database rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* rpm --rebuilddb -- rex -- 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