On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:20:01 -0600 Kevin Martin <kevintm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When using Yum to update a system, is there any way to tell yum to download more than one package at a time? If, say, there are > 15-20 packages to update, it would be nice if yum could do the download asynchronously instead of synchronously and then It wouldn't be materially faster, in fact its likely to make it slower and you'll put more load on the download site. Alan