Yum is a memory pig to the tune of 3GB

[Bruno Wolff III]

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

OK, I'll try that the next few times I use yum (and that is pretty much
daily) and see if I get it to happen again. I'll try using script to keep
a record of all of the output, so that if you think of other things to
ask about later the data will be available.

I did a yum install after that messages to reinstall the packages that
were pinning the 386 version of qt-x11 which was blocking updates and
things went much faster. So you hint that kernel updates may be related
to the problem might apply.

This is getting serious enough that perhaps I should open a bugzilla entry
on the next occurrence. Would you prefer that or keeping things on the test
list?