hello, > 2)what all things currently run in parallel with packages getting > downloaded (downloadPkgs() function) Nothing, yum is unlikely to ever be multi-threaded. And is currently not multi-tasking or doing downloads via. a poll/epoll like backend. -- --Regards --Pranjal Pandit Computer Science Engineering Department NIT HAMIRPUR _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum