cpu overheating

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 12/12/06, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 13:05 -0500, Mike Chalmers wrote:
> > When I ran "yum update", when it started to install the updates it
> > said something like cpu 0 overheating cpu 1 overheating. Then my
> > screen went black for a second and the next thing I new is I was at
> > the login screen.
>
> I've noticed that yum seems terribly CPU intensive.  Much more than
> other things which I expect to be doing even more work than the
> databasing that yum does (working out package dependencies).

It also does a lot of text processing, ie. XML parsing.

>
> Of course, it'd help if Linux wasn't so dependency mad.

Best solution I've seen yet.

> I've seem some
> damn peculiar ones (like KDE being dependent on having htdig installed).

The htdig does have system files (libraries)

> I can understand applications been dependent on standard system files,
> but it shouldn't go the other way around.

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