Sean Middleditch wrote:
>
> 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...?
By "a handful of seconds" do you mean "20"? I think an acceptable
number would be, like, "3", but I'm seeing anywhere from 19 to 64,
on four different FC3 machines on two different networks:
500MB RAM, 1.4GHz -- 1:04
<root@gronk:~/> time yum list '*mtr*'
Setting up Repo: base
repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Setting up Repo: updates-released
repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
base : ################################################## 2622/2622
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 180 kB 00:24
MD Read : ################################################## 408/408
updates-re: ################################################## 408/408
Installed Packages
mtr.i386 2:0.54-10 installed
mtr-gtk.i386 2:0.54-10 installed
8.405u 0.860s 1:04.81 14.2% 0+0k 0+0io 9pf+0w
500MB RAM, 1GHz -- 0:28
<jwz@codon:~/> time yum list '*mtr*'
Setting up Repo: base
Setting up Repo: updates-released
Reading repository metadata in from local files
base : ################################################## 2622/2622
updates-re: ################################################## 405/405
Installed Packages
mtr.i386 2:0.54-10 installed
mtr-gtk.i386 2:0.54-10 installed
8.363u 1.310s 0:28.44 34.0% 0+0k 0+0io 60pf+0w
1GB RAM, 2GHz -- 0:28
<root@cerebellum:~/> time yum list '*mtr*'
Setting up Repo: base
repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Setting up Repo: updates-released
repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
base : ################################################## 2622/2622
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 180 kB 00:01
MD Read : ################################################## 408/408
updates-re: ################################################## 408/408
Installed Packages
mtr.i386 2:0.54-10 installed
Available Packages
mtr-gtk.i386 2:0.54-10 base
5.836u 0.798s 0:28.18 23.4% 0+0k 0+0io 56pf+0w
1GB RAM, 2.2GHz -- 0:19
<root@grendel:~/> time yum list '*mtr*'
Setting up Repo: livna-stable
repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
Setting up Repo: base
repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Setting up Repo: updates-released
repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
Setting up Repo: livna-testing
repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
livna-stab: ################################################## 117/117
base : ################################################## 2622/2622
updates-re: ################################################## 408/408
livna-test: ################################################## 18/18
Installed Packages
mtr.i386 2:0.54-10 installed
mtr-gtk.i386 2:0.54-10 installed
3.639u 0.409s 0:19.88 20.2% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w
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