recover from broken yum transaction

[Caolán McNamara]

On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 21:07 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> at first blush it looks like yum is not releasing
> memory at a time when it could.

I guess its always possible that the unused memory hasn't been garbage
collected by python yet. Happens a lot for anyone playing with pygtk
pixbufs for example. Maybe experiment with whacking a great big
gc.collect() at the end of depsolving to see if it makes a blind bit of
difference.

C.