Comment 6 for bug 651482

Don,
as of now I'm not aware of any way to alleviate this problem signifficantly. See
James' quote in comment #0.

I propose the following minor edit because the speed depends on the actual
hardware used, some machines are faster than others.

<quote>
(ia64) When upgrading a large number of packages with yum update, the update
process may take a very long time to finish on some hardware.
</quote>