[COLUG] Memory Leak in Yum / Centos 4.4

[Jeffrey Tadlock]

Joshua Kramer wrote:
> 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?

Not sure if this will help, but it is something to check:

http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1528

Good luck!

--Jeffrey