YOU versions prior to SuSE 8.2 download every single patch description when you run it (even though you may have most of them on disk already.) That is why they are so slow. Yeah, and 7.3 seems to store them in RAM and using 400MB RAM makes YOU slow on machines with less than half a gig RAM. I`ve never seen that behavior with SuSE 7.2 or >=8.0 and we`re running 7.2 Online Updates on P133 with 64MB RAM.
Sven
Yes ideed, the Server is a PII-350/256 MB RAM and the load comes from intensive swap use. As read in the mail from Rafael E. Herrera my box is not to slow, but does not support >256 MB RAM! I tried YOU from console and via SSH and both times in several tests it crashed my server (who runs his/her server anyway under X?). After this damn situation I switched to fou4s, until it works better in the new version and fits my needs better, than YOU! I saw machines with P1-200/128MB running faster under Linux, than under any other OS (because of my special runlevel edit ;-) ). Is it possible to update Yast2 on older machines, or is it better to upgrade the distribution. The last step would be a long time duration, unless most things on my box doesn't have nothing to do with the original distribution (kernel, rightsmanagement, chattr, own compiled stuff ...). A apt-get or an up2date of Debian or Red Hat makes the life much more easy. This should be shipped with YOU a console-version (text only, no ui-ncurses-2.x.y version). For example: "yast --console --update" would be a fine solution for cron-jobs, compared to any distribution I tested (compared to fou4s, thats not supported by SuSE but a fine thing)! Philippe P.S.: A big greeting to SuSE for the new You in 8.2 it really works faster and is more reliable, than the old version. P.S.S.: A second big greeting to SuSE for the new and better kernel (now my promise LVM works without the special promise kernel and different other stuff -> AMD, that works better).