Re: yum slow on Fedora 10 after last update

On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Ian Mortimer wrote:

> With our repo configuration, yum has become much slower on Fedora 10
> since the last upgrade. With yum-3.2.23-3.fc10 check-update takes ~ 25
> times longer than with yum-3.2.21-2.fc10 (3 minutes cf 7 seconds).
>
> It's because we have a local updates repo and a remote one with (mostly)
> the same content.  If I disable either of those check-update takes a few
> seconds - with both enabled it now takes 3 minutes.
>
> Running with '-e10 -d10' shows it spends most of it's time outputting
> lines like:
>
>   excluding for cost: _package_ from updates-debuginfo
>
> The reason for two repos is that the local one lags behind so sometimes
> there are additional updates available from the remote.  (The local has
> cost=100 to ensure updates come from there preferentially).
>
> Is this type of configuration no longer viable?

It is - we just have to fix something stupid in the excludes code. There 
is a bug open about it already.


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508445
-sv