yum very slow

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 02:40 -0400, Richard Hally wrote:
> Yum seems to be very slow in resolving dependencies. I'm sitting here 
> watching my rawhide test box take over an hour to do the dep resolution 
> for todays updates from rawhide. This is on a box that has a 2.5ghz P4 
> and nothing else running on the machine. this has been occurring for at 
> least a few weeks(or longer). What should I do to get useful information 
> concerning this problem?
> 

are you sure it's the dep resolution that is slow or is it slowing down
when it does the header download DURING the dep resolution. I'm making
that distinction b/c one is a function of code and processor and the
other is a function of mirror availability and bandwidth.

-sv