Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez(a)ivazquez.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 20:30 -0300, Horst von Brand wrote:
> > i686, Fedora rawhide up to date (except for neon, rpm*, subversion;
> blocked
> > by OOo).
> >
> > Just updated, now I have yum-2.5.1-3. Running yum just to make sure
> > everything is now up-to-date gets to more than a minute (!) of CPU
> time
> > while checking the local repo data, and OOMs the machine, filling up
> swap
> > and making it nearly unresponsive. Only way out is kill -KILL,
> AFAICS.
> >
> > Just too bad I can't find an old yum RPM lying around just now...
>
> Known bug, and it's not caused by yum.
Who is to blame then?
I just get:
# yum check-update
Setting up repositories
extras-dev: ################################################## 2/2
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Killed
Even though I didn't kill the process. This is after about 3 minutes of
CPU thrashing. I'm guessing there's an internal timer that is triggering a
kill...