On Saturday 22 May 2004 19:19, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > i had to (unexpectedly) update a rather old Red Hat system (running 6.2!) > today... decided to install FC2 to see how it went, 2.6 kernel and all =) > > Hardware: 500Mhz PII, 128MB RAM >
AMD-k6 500, Not PII. ;-) > > only one problem. yum is amazingly slow. i used to think YAST was slow. > then i met yum. and even worse: yum is a resource HOG. it wasn't unusual > for YUM to take 80-100MB while installing a package! that's INSANE! > Agreed that that is rather large. However ... yum on my machine takes no where near the same amount of time (on FC1) ... or resources for that matter. I don't know what differences are between yum-2.0.7 in FC2 and yum-2.0.4 in FC1. Maybe somebody goofed something in yum? My machine is : AMD 2.4 gHz 512MB RAM I'm not saying that the shortcomings of yum should be ignored by increasing your CPU speed, and throwing more memory in a machine. Let's also not bash a program, running on hardware considered to be to "decent" ~ 5 years ago, and whine about it's speed. ;-) I never could complain about my 1990 plymouth acclaim not having the same speed as a 2004 mustang. Even after I had the tune up done. My suspicion is that urmpi, and yast would not run as fast on that machine either. Possibly faster than yum ... I cannot say. I think the luxury of installing on "new servers", with nice new and fast resources has spoiled our brains and fingers with speed. A fair comparasin would be using yum, urmpi, and yast on, at least similar, up to date hardware. 0.02 Andy _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
