On Wed, 2013-05-29 at 20:33 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > I did some tests and cold cache performance tests on an old Debian > installation. Performance with cold caches is more than adequate. > Full-text searches take about two seconds. Package installation reaches > the confirmation prompt (after dependency resolution) in less than three > seconds, even for ridiculously complex tasks such as installing the > entire KDE desktop (365 additional packages on my test system). > > In contrast, on Fedora or RHEL systems, 30 seconds for dependency > resolution with a cold cache are common, plus around 6 seconds for > loading all the Python code for yum. /usr/bin/time reports much more > I/O than it does non Debian (about ten times as much, as reflected in > the wall clock time). Yeh, it's almost like yum is dealing with more data: http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/apt2yum#Generalpoints -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel