dnf very slow

Hello All,
I have just upgraded from Fedora 21 to 22.
In Fedora 21 I used yumex to get updates, and it worked very nicely.
Yumex has changed, it is now "powered by dnf", which sounds good but it's performance is abysmal.
When an upgrade is selected and the process is started, it sits for ages, seemingly doing nothing...it can be minutes, then 80-90% of the download will be completed and it sits doing nothing again, until finally it completes the download and all then goes OK.
This has been the consistent behaviour since installing F22.
I have very good response to all my other web access, including downloads of documents etc.
It is possible, I guess, that the Fedora repos aren't responding too well.
Does anyone else see similar behaviour?

The other less than brilliant effect of this change in the update tool, is that dnf requires that you enter the name of a required package exactly right...which doesn't help when you only have a vague idea of the proper name. Yumex in F21 was very tolerant in this regard.

Cheers,
Terry

i never did find the GUI "yumex" useful

the terminal is WAY better

what is the difference in time if you use the terminal

su -
dnf update

after the dist upgrade you did clean out the rpm database ?

su -
dnf clean all

and old not used any more deprecated rpm's and settings ( "distro-sync" should do that)

Originally Posted by John VV i never did find the GUI "yumex" useful the terminal is WAY better what is the difference in time if you use the terminal

I have used the terminal as well to grab some stuff and it is pretty tardy as well.

after the dist upgrade you did clean out the rpm database ?

I did a clean install.

Cheers,
Terry

I agree, dnf seems slow compared to yum. My solution is to just keep copies of the latest version of the old yum and yumex

For some reason DNF attempts to connect at high ports (instead of FTP/HTTP) and I see a SYN_SENT which is being blocked by our network's firewall, so it just stalls. Yum always seemed to work fast and connect only on HTTP/FTP ports. Is there a way to force DNF to use ONLY http?

on my network dnf from command line seems a little faster than yum was. I don't ever use any gui like yumex. Strictly a "feeling" no measured data to compare