Is it possible to speed up yum.

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 09:46 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 09:21 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > The plugin that I'd point to first as having an impact pre-sack-setup
> > is fastestmirror. If you disable onlt that one do you see it?
> 
> Looks fairly conclusive I would say.
> However /var/cache/yum/timedhosts.txt has only 126 entries, which
> shouldn't take more than a jiffy to read and parse. May be worth a look.
> 

okay - it looks like fastestmirror isn't doing a 'good enough' check on
its mirror sorting. So on EVERY run it is rechecking those mirrors,
which means connecting to those 126 mirrors and determining the response
times.

So - on the original subject. With fastestmirror out of the list- how
are your result times from yum?

-sv