On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 12:49 +1100, Danny Yee wrote: > Kevin H. Hobbs wrote: > > yum-updatesd is definitely leaking memory. I restarted it on Thursday > > and now it's up to 917 MB. > > I have not yet been able to get yum-updatesd to work at all, ever, > on any one of the half dozen or more FC6 machines I look after. > And whenever I look at a Fedora Core 6 system set up by someone else, > I find it's not working there either. > > This could be because I'm at a uni where web access goes through > a proxy, but I've never had any problems getting plain yum to work > through that. > > So far I've been disabling yum-updatesd and replicating the old cron > entry from FC5. But there are plenty of FC6 users around here who > don't know how to do this and don't even realise they're running > without updates... ---- I forgot to mention on the previous post that the original package of yum-updatesd as installed from the first FC-6 packages was reputedly broken. As a result, I have a kickstart install automatically do a 'yum update' before finishing which does indeed add a lot of time to the install process. Craig
