Yum is a memory pig to the tune of 3GB

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Mon Mar 24 13:30:54 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 22:07 +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> >
> 
> > 4. When was the last time you've run: rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*; rpm
> > --rebuilddb
> 
> Why would one do that?

On rpmdb's that have been updated from past versions it is something
that can happen to make your rpmdb take longer and longer to access.

Seen it happen quite a number of times, in fact.

I don't know what causes it, though.
-sv





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