Yum performance

["Mostafa Z. Afgani" <mostafa afgani world iu-bremen de>]

Hi,

Over the last couple of days I have noticed that yum takes a very long
time to gather the header information from the servers. Download of
actual headers/packages are however normal. Is there anyone else
experiencing this problem? The following might be relevant:

# yum --version
2.0.7

# cat /etc/yum.conf
# $Id: yum-fd.conf,v 1.2 2003/11/13 13:07:34 dude Exp $

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=fedora-release
gpgcheck=1
tolerant=1
exactarch=1

[core]
name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - core
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/core

#[extras]
#name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - extras
#baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/extras

#[alternatives]
#name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - alternatives
#baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/alternatives

[updates]
name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - updates
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/updates

#[updates2]
#name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - updates II
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/

[freshrpms]
name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - freshrpms
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms

[kde-redhat-kde-stable]
name=kde-redhat.org (kde-stable)
baseurl=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/$releasever/stable

[kde-redhat-kde-stable-all]
name=kde-redhat.org (kde-stable-all)
baseurl=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/all/stable

[dag]
name=Fedora Core 2 Dag Wieers' Repository
baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/fc$releasever/en/i386/dag

[flash-plugin]
name=Macromedia flash-plugin
baseurl=http://macromedia.mplug.org/apt/fedora/$releasever

[livna-stable]
name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/yum/stable

[fedora-us-stable]
name=Fedora US Stable Packages
baseurl=http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/Linux/fedora/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.stable/

Thanks,
-M