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?
>> 
>> [root@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
>> [root@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".

[root@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

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