On Mon, December 25, 2006 1:45 pm, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: > ¿Is this behaviour "normal"? ¿What about this extensive hardware use > from Yum? Does this happen during the metadata parsing? If so, yes, it is quite resource intensive, especially when you have some large repositories enabled. There is a C metadata parser that is available from the yum site, that is much faster and lighter. But it requires yum 2.6.2. > I supose my laptop is an old-fashioned hardware but this behaviour did > not happen when I installed Ubuntu (and I did use apt to manage sofware) > in same machine in recent past. APT is available from the Extras repository, and may be faster on old hardware. With kind regards, Daniel de Kok