I'm not sure if I haven't noticed it until recently, but yum is a pig when it comes to memory utilization: root 17057 99.9 45.1 1534452 936384 pts/3 R 15:20 9:01 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/yum update As you can see, the process is 1.5GB in size with 936MB resident. This is on a system with 2GB of memory. On a system with 256MB of memory that I have, it spends much more time swapping than actually doing an update of my system. It has come to the point where I feel I need to do something about this since it's just not acceptable to me. Has anyone dug into this any deeper? Is it the RPM libraries? Or just the algorithm that yum uses? JE
