Rex Dieter wrote: > 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/* arg, make that /var/lib/yum/yumdb/* -- 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