Is it possible to speed up yum.

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 07:19 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

> It doesn't. It refreshes it if metadata_expire seconds (defined
> in /etc/yum.conf) have elapsed since the last time it was run. Since I
> deliberately updated both systems just before running the test, there
> was no network activity. This is explained in the post.
> 

Try this out for me?

yum -d3 [whatever_command_here] | grep 'time:'

and send the output along.

And is this 3.2.16 or 3.2.14?

thanks,
-sv