Johnny Hughes wrote: > 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 ... > Yum! :D