Reducing Fedora memory footprint?

[Gilboa Davara]

On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 09:54 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Thursday 23 November 2006 09:33, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > I know I'll be flogged for asking it... which one? (The only I'm aware
> > of [and using] is fastestmirror [1])
> 
> The metaparser.  yum-metadata-parser
> 

Oh... OK. Already have it installed.
yum/FC6 is indeed faster then FC4/5.

I apologize for stirring the hornet's nest, but on a low end machine
(P2/366, 256MB) even with metadata-parser -and- fastestmirror, yum is
slower by an order of magnitude than apt-get (both apt-rpm and Debian's
apt) and slapt-get (slackware) and requires twice as much memory.
I'm talking about "yum -y -C update" compared to "apt-get -y
dist-upgrade"
Am I the only one having this problem?
Did anyone try to instrument yum in-order to solve this problem?

- Gilboa