On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 01:10:40PM +0000, Andy Green wrote: > 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 After removing the databases by the command I would run: rpm --rebuilddb to rebuild the database. ======================================================================= Real Programmers don't write in PL/I. PL/I is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
