On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 12:18 -0400, John Poelstra wrote: > Shyam said the following on 06/17/2008 12:10 PM Pacific Time: > > I've been using Fedora since fedora 6 and it is good to see improvements > > in yum. When compared with ubuntu in the packages which is around > > 25000 and fedora which has around 10000, the time taken to download the > > package list during the refresh in ubuntu takes lesser time than Fedora. > > Is it possible to speed this process.? > > > > -- > > Shyam > > > > Just out of curiosity... exactly what is the time different downloading > and installing the same package set on Fedora and Ubuntu? I don't know that it makes much sense to compare download times since in general the packages are coming from different servers (and aren't even the same sizes). What I do notice is that apt-get and friends on Ubuntu are much faster at resolving dependencies, so it may be something about the database implementation. For example if I do a "yum update" and a minute later do another one, yum takes a while to tell there's nothing to be done (even when using the cache), whereas apt-get is almost instantaneous. Here's a quick comparison. Both machines are Intel Core 2 Duos with 2GB of RAM. One is Fedora 9, the other is Ubuntu Gutsy. Both are up to date with their respective repos, so no network activity is going on here: Fedora: # time yum update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, protectbase, refresh-packagekit Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * livna-development: mirror.atrpms.net * livna: mirror.atrpms.net * google: dl.google.com * fedora: fedora.c3sl.ufpr.br * adobe-linux-i386: linuxdownload.adobe.com * localrepo: * updates: ftp.usf.edu 0 packages excluded due to repository protections Setting up Update Process No Packages marked for Update real 0m5.376s user 0m3.611s sys 0m0.278s Gutsy: $ time sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. real 0m0.430s user 0m0.420s sys 0m0.008s poc -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list