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

[Colin Charles]

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...

up2date however, while sitting in the "system tray" (notification area
really) takes up about 5% of memory - that's a resource hog, and can be
killed, for most users
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