why doesn't yum cache anything?

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

fre, 31.12.2004 kl. 09.12 skrev Jamie Zawinski:
> Sean Middleditch wrote:
> > 
> > It only takes a handful of seconds on my machine, which is only 1.5ghz.
> > Yum is *very* RAM intensive, so if you're low there, that might be the
> > slow down...?
> 
> By "a handful of seconds" do you mean "20"?  I think an acceptable 
> number would be, like, "3", but I'm seeing anywhere from 19 to 64, 
> on four different FC3 machines on two different networks:
> 
> 
> 500MB RAM, 1.4GHz -- 1:04
> 
>     <root at gronk:~/> time yum list '*mtr*'
>     Setting up Repo:  base
>     repomd.xml                100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
>     Setting up Repo:  updates-released
>     repomd.xml                100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
>     Reading repository metadata in from local files
>     base      : ################################################## 2622/2622
>     primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 180 kB    00:24
>     MD Read   : ################################################## 408/408
>     updates-re: ################################################## 408/408
>     Installed Packages
>     mtr.i386                                 2:0.54-10              installed
>     mtr-gtk.i386                             2:0.54-10              installed
>     8.405u 0.860s 1:04.81 14.2%     0+0k 0+0io 9pf+0w
> 
> 500MB RAM, 1GHz -- 0:28
> 
>     <jwz at codon:~/> time yum list '*mtr*'
>     Setting up Repo:  base
>     Setting up Repo:  updates-released
>     Reading repository metadata in from local files
>     base      : ################################################## 2622/2622
>     updates-re: ################################################## 405/405
>     Installed Packages
>     mtr.i386                                 2:0.54-10              installed
>     mtr-gtk.i386                             2:0.54-10              installed
>     8.363u 1.310s 0:28.44 34.0%     0+0k 0+0io 60pf+0w
> 
> 1GB RAM, 2GHz -- 0:28
> 
>     <root at cerebellum:~/>  time yum list '*mtr*'
>     Setting up Repo:  base
>     repomd.xml                100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
>     Setting up Repo:  updates-released
>     repomd.xml                100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
>     Reading repository metadata in from local files
>     base      : ################################################## 2622/2622
>     primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 180 kB    00:01
>     MD Read   : ################################################## 408/408
>     updates-re: ################################################## 408/408
>     Installed Packages
>     mtr.i386                                 2:0.54-10              installed
>     Available Packages
>     mtr-gtk.i386                             2:0.54-10              base
>     5.836u 0.798s 0:28.18 23.4%     0+0k 0+0io 56pf+0w
> 
> 1GB RAM, 2.2GHz -- 0:19
> 
>     <root at grendel:~/> time yum list '*mtr*'
>     Setting up Repo:  livna-stable
>     repomd.xml                100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
>     Setting up Repo:  base
>     repomd.xml                100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
>     Setting up Repo:  updates-released
>     repomd.xml                100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
>     Setting up Repo:  livna-testing
>     repomd.xml                100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
>     Reading repository metadata in from local files
>     livna-stab: ################################################## 117/117
>     base      : ################################################## 2622/2622
>     updates-re: ################################################## 408/408
>     livna-test: ################################################## 18/18
>     Installed Packages
>     mtr.i386                                 2:0.54-10              installed
>     mtr-gtk.i386                             2:0.54-10              installed
>     3.639u 0.409s 0:19.88 20.2%     0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w
> 
You are comparing apples and oranges - those machines has different sets
of repos.