Yum performance

[James Kosin]

Mostafa Z. Afgani wrote:

> 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:
>

> <<--snip-->>


> Thanks,
> -M
>
M,

You have quite a few repositories to look at.  Basically, if there are 
any redundancies on any of the servers you are pointing to; yum also has 
to resolve the headers for each.  This is to help limit downloading the 
same package from 2 or more different sites.
You have 9 repositories listed and enabled, which is quite a bit if you 
ask me.  But, then what do I know?

One way to help, could be to mirror all those sites on your system and 
build a single yum repository on your server or another where you could 
get all the updates in a single download.
Look up 'yum-arch' for this.  There are also several sites on how to 
setup a mirror and a yum repository.

Good Luck,
James Kosin