yum very slow

[Richard Hally]

sorry for the reply to myself.
for the record, Problem solved:  see below.
Richard Hally wrote:

> Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>
>> On 5/11/05, Richard Hally <rhally at mindspring.com> wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Excluding Packages in global exclude list
>>> Finished
>>> (wait an hour + )
>>> Resolving Dependencies
>>> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages..
>>>
>>> During the wait, there is continuous disk activity.  and no network
>>> activity.
>>> This has been going on for a while (it didn't just start today)
>>> I did a yum clean all to see if it would help but it did not.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> that's fascinatingly different than what I'm seeing. How much memory
>> do you have.. and how much memory is the yum process using during that
>> (wait an hour+)  I'm definitely not experiencing this on my rawhide
>> box.
>>
>> -jef
>>
>>  
>>
> Below is some of the output with -d 10 option specified. I may have 
> been mistaken when I originally said the wait was while resolving 
> dependencies. The long wait occurs immediately *before* the "Resolving 
> Dependencies" is printed.  Once the "Resolving Dependencies" is 
> printed, the header downloads and the rest of the update continue 
> normally.
>
<snip>

after removing primary.xml.gz, primary.xml.gz.sqlite and repomd.xml from 
/var/cache/yum/development the problem has been solved. It looks like 
the new  primary.xml.gz.sqlite file that was created is substantially 
small (6.6mb vs 7.2mb) while the other recreated files are exactly the 
same size.

thanks for all the help
Richard Hally