On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 12:00, Nigel Metheringham wrote: > 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). The depresolution is significantly sped up in the yum-HEAD code. I'm still working on that (among other things). When it's ready for testing I'll make sure everyone hears about it. -sv
