[rhn-users] yum-updatesd memory usage

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 6/12/07, Hiren Patel <patelhn at telkom.co.za> wrote:
>
> hi all,
>
> is it just me or does yum-updatesd use a lot of memory by default?
>
> this is the 'top' entry from a machine i have:
>
> PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> 2317 root      15   0 40648  19m 3424 S  0.0  7.9   0:07.09 yum-updatesd
>

It is not just you.. the program could really use some refactoring (or
something). Having seen yum-updatesd grow to 256 MB on a 256 MB system
does give the feeling of well-being. I mostly disable it on machines
until such time I feel that it is not going to be eating resources I
need on my virtual machines.


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Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
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