Re: [CentOS] Why is yum not liked by some?

On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Tim Edwards wrote:

John Newbigin wrote:

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I also think yum is too slow.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks that. After using urpmi at home on Mandrake with more than 11000 packages in the configured repos I can say that yum is definately far slower with only ~4000 packages in configured repos. The whole "Setting up Repos" and "Reading repository metadata in from local files" is a real drag.

Check if you have enough memory in the system. I experienced that Yum needs more than 192MB of RAM.

Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]