Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: > Hi all, > > When I do a simple string search with Yum (ex. yum search *hwinfo*) my > laptop suffers high slowness. If I open another shell-tab and execute > top command, it shows me an extensive use of hardware resources from Yum > (20-25% RAM and 70-85% CPU). If in the same time I'm using Firefox > browser the performance goes down too much and even it seems the box > it's freezed. The box become totally useless during few minutes (until > yum command has finished or I've killed it) Yeah, that's yum. You should see what it does to my old Pentium MMX laptop :-( -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20061225/3b9d0b80/attachment-0005.sig>