On Mon, 2006-12-25 at 13:45 +0100, 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) > > More info about my old and loved laptop: > > * Hardware* > Acer TravelMate 240 > 256RAM > Celeron 2,5 Ghz > > *Software* > CentOS 4.4 Final (totally updated at current day) > Desktop default instalation (which means GNOME environment) > > > ¿Is this behaviour "normal"? ¿What about this extensive hardware use > from Yum? > > 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. You might also try RUM ... http://code.google.com/p/rum/ (I am not making this stuff up :P) It seems to do some things faster. Thanks, Johnny Hughes -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20061225/70bb5599/attachment-0005.sig>