Re: Yum is a memory pig to the tune of 3GB

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On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 11:02 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> I ran it again this morning with top and iotop running.
> 
> At first I need to erase the 386 version of qt-x11 and two dependencies
> to allow the update to occur. This went quickly.
> 
> Then I ran the real update.
> yum started out at around 500MB and shortly after printing "Running transaction
> test" it went up to around 600MB.
okay - at this point it is over in the rpm transaction, running a --test
transaction (more or less)


>  It stayed there for a while. I wasn't
> doing accurate timing, but probably a couple of minutes. Then it went up
> to 3GB in what appeared to be a coupe of jumps.

If this is BEFORE the transaction ran properly then I bet it is the
memory use of file fingerprinting to look for conflicting files. Panu,
Paul or Florian can probably say more about that than I can.

-sv


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