Herb ran a test on staging and with the cache set to 500:
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND 1000 26950 13.9 11.2 1196480 905636 pts/3 Rl+ 16:40 10:12 /usr/bin/python2.4 cronscripts/update-pkgcache.py
So it's a large improvement.
Herb ran a test on staging and with the cache set to 500:
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND update- pkgcache. py
1000 26950 13.9 11.2 1196480 905636 pts/3 Rl+ 16:40 10:12 /usr/bin/python2.4 cronscripts/
So it's a large improvement.