Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: > >> 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. >> > Yes Daniel, it happens especially during the metadata parsing. The > trouble is yum is in version 2.4.3. > The C metadata parser sounds great. I'll try it in future Yum versions. > > I'm not a developer but anybody knows that C is great language in > terms of performance. > > ¿Is Yum written totally in Python or I'm wrong? > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Yum's written in python. python23 in fact. Which is a bummer because we have this groovy version of python24 we use for our applications and we broke yum installing it and the libxml2 stuff. We actually recompiled yum 2.6.1 and everything it needs to run under our version of python24. The only message we haven't bothered to straighten out yet is: Warning, could not load sqlite, falling back to pickle 2.6.1 Which yields a bit of a performance degradation when installing packages. But we did get yum upgraded and running after about a day of satisfying dependencies, a few patches, and plenty of 'rpmbuild -ba blahblah.spec'. Peter -- Peter Serwe <peter at infostreet dot com> http://www.infostreet.com "The only true sports are bullfighting, mountain climbing and auto racing." -Earnest Hemingway "Because everything else requires only one ball." -Unknown