On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 22:50 -0800, Jamie Zawinski wrote: > Sean Middleditch wrote: > > > > The problem you're perceiving (slow operation as yum starts up) isn't at > > all due to lack of caching, but perhaps very inefficient handling of the > > cache - a lot of data has to be parsed and such, when it could perhaps > > be stored in a more ready-to-process format. > > It takes *nearly a minute* to do that! I'm on a 2GHz machine. > If it's not hitting the net, what's it doing, raytracing? That or maybe an embedded SETI@home client...? It only takes a handful of seconds on my machine, which is only 1.5ghz. Yum is *very* RAM intensive, so if you're low there, that might be the slow down...? > > -- > Jamie Zawinski jwz@xxxxxxx http://www.jwz.org/ > jwz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.dnalounge.com/ > http://jwz.livejournal.com/ >
