On Dec 20, 2010, at 4:55 PM, Connie Sieh wrote: > On Mon, 20 Dec 2010, Ken Schumacher wrote: > >> >> On Dec 20, 2010, at 4:15 PM, Connie Sieh wrote: >> >>> Ken, >>> >>> Have you done a >>> >>> yum clean all >> >> Yes, I have done 'yum clean all'. That's part of the e-mail that I sent at >> 4:12 this afternoon, probably while you were typing this message to me. > > Yes and I was writing my email when you were writing yours. Good they did > not smash each other in transfer :-) > >> >>> for each of your repositories? >> >> I have not used any enablerepo or disablerepo options on the 'yum clean all' >> command. I guess when I typed clean all, I figured that would just clear >> everything from the cache and such, regardless of repository. > > "yum clean all" only cleans the enabled repos not the disabled repos. > > yum --enablerepo=\* clean all > > will really clean them all.
I just tried that. It did not resolve the memory issue. >> >>> What version of yum and rpm do you have? >> >> [r...@jpsi1 ~]# rpm -qa | grep yum >> yum-2.4.3-10.SL.noarch > > That is the latest yum for both 4.4 and 4.8. > >> yum-utils-0.3.1-1.SL.2.noarch >> yum-conf-42-3.LTS.noarch >> [r...@jpsi1 ~]# rpm -qa | grep rpm >> rpm-libs-4.3.3-33_nonptl.el4_8.1.x86_64 >> rpmdb-Fermi-44-0.20061206.x86_64 >> rpm-build-4.3.3-33_nonptl.el4_8.1.x86_64 >> redhat-rpm-config-8.0.32.1-4.noarch >> rpm-python-4.3.3-33_nonptl.el4_8.1.x86_64 >> rpm-devel-4.3.3-33_nonptl.el4_8.1.x86_64 >> SL_rpm_show_arch-1.0-1.noarch >> rpm-4.3.3-33_nonptl.el4_8.1.x86_64 > > That is the latest rpm for 4.8 . > > What is the output of > > yum list extras > > Hope it is not memory intensive too. Same issue. It had to be "killed". [r...@jpsi1 ~]# yum -d 5 list extras Loading "kernel-module" plugin Yum Version: 2.4.3 COMMAND: yum -d 5 Installroot: / Ext Commands: extras Setting up repositories Baseurl(s) for repo: ['ftp://linux1.fnal.gov/linux/lts42/x86_64/sites/Fermi/errata/Fermi/RPMS/', 'ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/lts42/x86_64/sites/Fermi/errata/Fermi/RPMS/'] Baseurl(s) for repo: ['ftp://linux1.fnal.gov/linux/lts42/x86_64/SL/RPMS/', 'ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/lts42/x86_64/SL/RPMS/'] Baseurl(s) for repo: ['ftp://linux1.fnal.gov/linux/lts42/x86_64/sites/Fermi/Updates/', 'ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/lts42/x86_64/sites/Fermi/Updates/'] Reading repository metadata in from local files Setting up Package Sacks Terminated > > --connie sieh ============================================================== 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
