On Wednesday 28 September 2005 23:05, Alan E. Davis wrote: > My first few days with FC3 on a dual Opteron x86_64 system. > > Yum is excruciatingly slow. Is this normal? > > When doing > # yum update > yum grabs most of CPU in doing "Transition Test", the system bogs down, > huge lags. > > Perhaps I've screwed things up by updating earlier? However, ever since I > got the machine, yum is very slow. > > APT: > > I tried to install apt, which is, as always, extremely responsive. But > apt-get offered to remove hundreds of packages, so I gave up on that. > > I would appreciate any assistance in getting started on getting packages > into the system. > > Alan Davis > > > > > -- > ~/.signature This also depends on how many mirrors you have in your repos or config file