# Elastic yum 8.x repodata size

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-yum-8-x-repodata-size/365600>\
**Category:** Elastic Search\
**Created:** [August 27, 2024, 7:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-yum-8-x-repodata-size/365600 "2024-08-27T07:31:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![adi-drori\_clv](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/adi-drori_clv/32/137078_2.png) [@adi-drori\_clv](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/adi-drori_clv)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 7:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-yum-8-x-repodata-size/365600/1 "2024-08-27T07:31:36Z")

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Lately I found that the yum cache size for the elastic-8.x repository is oversized.  
After I cleaned the cache and renewed it on a RH7 machine - I found that the cache size for the elastic-8.x repo is 1.8G.  
Looks like the top files are -

```auto
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 597M Aug 27 10:26 filelists.xml.sqlite
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.1G Aug 8 16:35 filelists.xml

```

This is a huge impact on the /var filesystem size.  
On RH8 the cache is kept compressed, but still needs to be extracted for dnf actions - which takes time and memory.  
I wonder if there's a way to reduce the xml size - OS repositories are much larger but have significantly smaller index files

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2024, 7:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-yum-8-x-repodata-size/365600/2 "2024-09-24T07:32:01Z")

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Closed on September 24, 2024, 7:32am UTC

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