Yum is a memory pig to the tune of 3GB
Bruno Wolff III
bruno at wolff.to
Tue Mar 25 13:47:43 UTC 2008
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 08:23:57 -0400,
seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> sure run yum like this:
> yum -d 3 update
> - look for lines that match this 'time:'
> - memory use before you hit 'y' at the prompt
> - memory use after you hit 'y' at the prompt
I tried it with today's updates and even though there were 41 updates, 3
installs and 2 removes including a kernel install/remove, the problem
didn't happen. Usage was around 500MB and though things weren't lightning
fast, they were a lot more reasonable than when it was using 3GB.
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