<div>On 11/3/05, seth vidal <<a href="mailto:skvidal@phy.duke.edu">skvidal@phy.duke.edu</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> But I don't think the network is the only bottleneck. I think there are places in the installation mechanism where we can get some speedups. Let's look at those instead? </blockquote></div> If we want to improvement out of the process, we need to look at enhancing Yum. For sure. The single most "Wow" we could get out of the whole thing would be to introduce an asynchronous download of the repo metadata. In addition to this, async download of packages from multiple disparate servers is definitely needed. Possible learning vector on how it could work: <a href="http://smartpm.org">smartpm.org</a>. It would be very beneficial to the whole process. Anyone up for the task?! :-D -- -jeff