I was having slow response from the duke repository yesterday. I tried downloading with wget and I was getting around 1KB/s. I'm still new to using Yum so maybe this is normal, but seems to me like it could be causing the delay. Andrew ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nigel Metheringham" <Nigel.Metheringham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Yellowdog Updater, Modified" <yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 12:00 PM Subject: [Yum] Its just a little slow > yum is somewhat slow on VIA C3 processor based boxes - ie I have an EPIA > with C3 800Mhz here. Installing a package can take 10-15 minutes in > the dependency resolution stage (I have a few repositories in the list > but not a huge number). > > If theres something I can do to help trace the problem let me know. > > If it helps, I had some perl scripts which ran horribly slow on this box > in perl. Adding > use integer; > use bytes; > made a huge difference (use bytes turns off the UTF-8 string handling > and I think its that which has a serious effect on speed). > > Nigel. > > -- > [ Nigel Metheringham Nigel.Metheringham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] > [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ] > > > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
