Security updates (was Re: [Lias] Seeking Recommendation for Tech Support Company)

[Paul Gear]

Colin Charles wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 08:05, Paul Gear wrote:
> 
> 
>>Yum seems a little more resource hungry than the previous alternatives
>>(when i first upgraded my PII 266 w/- 128 Mb RAM, it took about 20 hrs
>>to download all of the headers and about 95% of system memory), but it
>>sure makes it easy to keep software from multiple sources up to date.
> 
> 
> It's not yum, its the rpm database. The more RAM it has, the better. Its
> a known RPM db issue...

Not in my experience, it's not.  RPM 4.2 & up2date (under RHL9) worked
fine on the above-mentioned system, but RPM 4.2.1 & yum (under FC1)
have the memory issue.  Top shows yum taking all the RAM.

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