Yum is a memory pig to the tune of 3GB

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 14:32:42 -0400,
  Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> seth vidal (skvidal at fedoraproject.org) said: 
> > 3GB is way beyond the norm and if it is during the transaction points to
> > SOMETHING in the rpm transaction exploding in memory.
> 
> Is this memory usage as measured by the 'virtual' size, or the RSS
> of the process? Virtual size (as reported by top) tends to not accurately
> reflect the actual amount of memory used.

It was 3GB virtual, about 600 MB resident. It also seemed to take a long time
to run compared to what it does sometimes.