Yesterday Fedora Core6 was released, and I was lucky to get my download completed and installed. Naturally my first install was yumex. While it is executing, my cpu fan started to spin up to speed. I quickly turned on the CPU monitor and noted that for extended periods of time, one cpu was steady at 2 to 3 percent busy, while the other was at 100%. Occasionally the reverse was true. Is there a way to create multiple tasks so that load balancing could be done? If what I saw was decompressing a large file, then I know my answer, it is "No". Can yum multi-thread so that another download can take place while local processing is occurring? Leslie