Alan,

Thank you for that pointer.  I re-ran the 'yum clean all' including the --enablerepo='*' option.  It appeared to clean out the same metadata and cache files as last time.  And when I tried the 'yum -d 5 list yum' command again, it still ends up in the loop consuming memory as before.

I appreciate that you added new information that got me to go past an assumption that I had made.  But the problem still persists.

Thanks again,
Ken S.

On Dec 20, 2010, at 4:44 PM, Alan Bartlett wrote:

> On 20 December 2010 22:39, Ken Schumacher <[log in to unmask]> 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.
>> 
>>> 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.
> 
> That, unfortunately, is not the case.
> 
> See, for example: http://blog.toracat.org/2009/05/yum-when-all-is-not-all/
> 
> Alan.

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