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.