Dag Wieers wrote: > On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Tim Edwards wrote: > > >>John Newbigin wrote: >> >> >>>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. 1GB of RAM. Its not a major problem its just a delay that other package management systems don't seem to have. -- Tim Edwards