FirstServed Tech Blog - FirstServed and the Art of Server Tuning

If the good old and trustworthy CentOs image you are using is suddenly being VERY slow when performing a "yum upgrade" command, try this rule to speed things back up a bit:

yum clean all

Most likely yum is using some old cached information.

We encountered this problem when upgrading from CentOS 5.0 to 5.3.

Tags: CentOS, hosting, Linux, server

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