YUM problem on new FC4 installation

[Donald Arseneau]

fredex <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> writes:

> Either program will run for a while then hang. for, like, 2 hours until
> I kill it. When hung it consumes 80-90% of the CPU but does nothing
> obviously productive.

That *is* unusual.  If I have a too-big update Yum thrashes,
taking 80-90% of the memory but less than 5% of the cpu; and
does nothing obviously productive.  Yum is a pig.

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Donald Arseneau                          asnd at triumf.ca