Donald Arseneau wrote: >>Either program will run for a while then hang. for, like, 2 hours until >>I kill it. When hung it consumes 80-90% of the CPU but does nothing >>obviously productive. > > That *is* unusual. If I have a too-big update Yum thrashes, > taking 80-90% of the memory but less than 5% of the cpu; and > does nothing obviously productive. Yum is a pig. rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__* and try again. Yum does have some porcine characteristics on a big install but it's generally very good. If the above solved the problem then it was more an rpmn library problem than a yum problem FWIW. -Andy
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