On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 07:04:09PM -0200, Alexandre Strube wrote: > Up2date takes forever on EVERY computer I tested. And forget about using > anything on the same desktop. It looks like a bad multithreaded app. >From the UI behaviour and a quick look it seems to be single threaded but it certainly absorbs amazing amounts of ram at times. Not sure why - rpm transactions are complex and some of the handling isn't ideal but yum uses a lot less than up2date