YUM is seriously fubar

[dave at tokyocomedy.com (Dave Gutteridge)]

Okay, I have over 9 gigs of spare room on my main hard drive, so I don't 
think var is filling up. I've set prelinking to be off (I think), and 
yet still, YUM continues to freeze my computer.

If I try to do a search or install, about half the time it will go nuts 
on the hard drive, I lose control of the mouse, and eventually I have no 
choice but to hard reset.

What's wrong with YUM?

Dave