Re: [Hampshire] Tuning yum on Fedora 8

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Author: The Holy ettlz
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Tuning yum on Fedora 8

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On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 13:21 +0000, Jon Fautley wrote:
> As Vic mentioned, --disablerepo is your friend. Yum sucks in LOTS of
> data when it works with repos.


Even with just fedora and updates, usage can get up to 86/125. Just what
is it *doing* with all that memory? [Note: I have filed a bug about
this.] If I were doing it by hand, resolving all the dependencies etc.,
I doubt it would take me 86 MiB! It never used to be like this. Could
the sqlite backend be causing all this?

It's almost motivation for me to have a go coding my own replacement...

> Much more than apt does (before anyone
> starts with the "But Debian doesn't do that..." argument ;p), and thus
> memory usage is pretty high. It's also written in Python, which isn't
> known for its memory leanness... :)


apt appears to use about an order of magnitude less memory than yum, and
seems a lot quicker too. Of course, comparing the two like this is
conceivably "playing dirty" ;)

James

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