Latets yum thoroughly hosed?!

[Steven Haigh]

> Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at 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...