On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 22:50:26 -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? $ time sudo yum install blurb Setting up Install Process Setting up Repo: fedora-extras-local repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 Setting up Repo: base repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 Setting up Repo: updates-released repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files fedora-ext: ################################################## 421/421 base : ################################################## 1652/1652 updates-re: ################################################## 405/405 No Match for argument blurb Nothing to do real 0m9.838s user 0m6.556s sys 0m0.674s And yes, this machine is clocked at less than 2 GHz, and no dependency calculation included.
