Yum is a memory pig to the tune of 3GB

[Andrew Farris]

Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> The update on Friday was pretty large since all of the stuff that had
> been held for the beta was released. I wasn't watching real closely
> at the start, so maybe it had a slow startup as well, though once packages
> were being updated it wasn't too bad (several seconds per package typically).
> 
> The cpu usage at that time was almost zero. iotop wasn't installed so I
> didn't run that.
> 
> I keep an eye on things tomorrow when I apply the next set of updates.
> Is there anything particularly useful you want me to capture?

That particular update had over 600 packages for me, it would be pretty 
reasonable to see a massive memory load for that I would think.

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