[COLUG] Memory Leak in Yum / Centos 4.4

[R P Herrold]

On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, 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

Not so much a leak, but rather:  yum is a ram hog .. no two 
ways about it.  Upstream is aware of the issue and is 
theoretically working on the issue.

Workarounds are to remove extra and unused kernels with rpm, 
and to disable non-used archives.

-- Russ Herrold