On Mon, 20 Dec 2010, Ken Schumacher wrote:

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

Please send in private email to me the contents of /tmp/yumtrace

   strace -fo /tmp/yumtrace yum list yum

on both a system where it "fails" and one where it "works".

You may have to install strace which is in the strace rpm.

-connie sieh

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> Thanks again,
> Ken S.
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> On Dec 20, 2010, at 4:44 PM, Alan Bartlett wrote:
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>> On 20 December 2010 22:39, Ken Schumacher <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> On Dec 20, 2010, at 4:15 PM, Connie Sieh wrote:
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>>>> Ken,
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>>>> Have you done a
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>>>>   yum clean all
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>>> 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.
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>>>> for each of your repositories?
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>>> 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.
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>> That, unfortunately, is not the case.
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>> See, for example: http://blog.toracat.org/2009/05/yum-when-all-is-not-all/
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>> Alan.
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