On 03/14/2012 06:44 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
gpk-prefs has no effect whatsoever under KDE Plasma sessions, where Apper is used, not gnome-packagekit.
While that is probably true, I found this to be interesting....
Yesterday I found yumbackend.py running at 100% every once in a while as described. I did a ps and found the parent process for it to be /usr/libexec/packagekitd.
I did run gpk-prefs and didn't think it would have any effect since it was already set to 1-hour. In doing so, I was reminded about a complaint in a different thread about security updates being applied automatically. While that isn't happening, I unchecked that option in the event I may sometime run GNOME.
Anyway, I just checked now and yumbackend.py is no longer popping up from time to time. However, I also ran an update and rebooted due the kernel being updated in that batch.