Yum is a memory pig to the tune of 3GB

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Tue Mar 25 07:17:36 UTC 2008


seth vidal wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 22:07 +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
>> seth vidal wrote:
>>> 4. When was the last time you've run: rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*; rpm
>>> --rebuilddb
>> Why would one do that?
> 
> On rpmdb's that have been updated from past versions it is something
> that can happen to make your rpmdb take longer and longer to access.
> 
> Seen it happen quite a number of times, in fact.
> 
> I don't know what causes it, though.

Sounds like a bug to me; I've never noticed it myself though. Might be 
related, might not.



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