yumex and memory
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Fri Sep 30 16:03:21 UTC 2005
Josh Coffman wrote:
>
> --- "Michael A. Peters" <mpeters at mac.com> wrote:
>
>
>>On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 21:03 +0200, Eric Tanguy
>>wrote:
>>
>>>Using yumex use a lot of memory but it seems that
>>
>>yumex does not
>>
>>>restitute it. You use yumex, you look for
>>
>>something so first in your
>>
>>>default repos and after you try in other repos but
>>
>>at each time you
>>
>>>click on refresh on the repos tab yumex does not
>>
>>restitute the memory.
>>
>>>If i try this 4 or 5 times yumex saturate my
>>
>>memory and the only
>>
>>>possibility is to close yumex and reopen it.
>>>Someone could confirm this and/or explain me why ?
>>>Thanks
>>
>>I've noticed that too.
>>
>
>
> Although I'm still learing it and still using yumex
> for mostly, smartpm seems like a better package
> manager.
> It's faster and claims to resolve packages better than
> yum.
>
> http://www.smartpm.org/
>
I would try smartpm but there is no FC4 version. I guess I will stick
with Yumex. BTW, is there a bug filed on the memory issue?
--
Robin Laing
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