yumupdated resource usage

[Ron Yorston]

Geoffrey Leach <geoff at hughes.net> wrote:
>Thanks.  The trace of IP addresses suggested that yumupdated might have 
>been in a loop probinv various repositories. If the mirrors were out of 
>sync that could have been the problem.

This isn't the first time we've had reports of yumupdatesd misbehaving
in the face of problems with mirrors:

   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=374801

That bug has been closed as fixed, even though the only fix was to
repair the broken file on the mirrors.  That doesn't address the
underlying issue that yumupdatesd should be better behaved when things
go wrong.  Because things /will/ go wrong.

For people with limited bandwidth, or capped bandwidth, or who pay by
quantity of data transferred it's unaccpetable that yumupdatesd should
sit in a loop downloading broken files from mirrors.  That's what needs
to be fixed.

Ron