[COLUG] Memory Leak in Yum / Centos 4.4

[Travis Sidelinger]

Try running yum through ltrace.  We should be able to see the memory
allocation calls and maybe see what it's doing while the memory is growing.

Joshua Kramer wrote:
> 
> Howdy all,
> 
> Has anyone encountered a memory leak problem with Yum under CentOS 4.4?
> On one of my machines, whenever I try to do anything with Yum, during
> the "Reading repository metadata in from local files", Yum hangs and
> takes up additional memory (to the point the machine locks up - not long
> since the machine only has 256M).  I've rebuilt the RPM database several
> times.
> 
> Any ideas where I should look to fix this?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Josh
> 
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