Greetings, I have a repeatable problem on at least one of our SLF 4.4 systems. It seems that running commands like 'yum --check-update' seem to run into some sort of memory leak. The yum output gets to the point of saying "Reading repository metadata in from local files" and a top listing on a another window shows the memory use simply climbing. The original window will not respond to a Ctrl-C.
We have had to disable the cron.daily yum update on the nodes because it was causing problems every night when it runs. FWIW, I did try to run a 'yum clean all' command. That runs fine, but the next attempt to run a check-update suffers the same memory issues. I've searched through the linux-users and scientific-linux-users archives and have not found anything like this reported already. Has anyone seen this? Ken S. ============================================================== Ken Schumacher <[email protected]> (o) 630-840-4579 (f) 630-840-3109 Computing Div/HPC LQCD Group Loc: WH8E http://www.usqcd.org/fnal/ Fermi National Accelerator Lab; PO Box 500 MS 120 Batavia, IL 60510-0500
