[COLUG] Memory Leak in Yum / Centos 4.4

[Bill Baker]

This sounds exactly like what I encountered in Fedora Core 6, except my
entire machine didn't lock up.  I have an older system (650MHz
processor, 256MB RAM) and I tried shutting down some applications before
using yum and it seems to have worked so far.

On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 18:14 -0500, 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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