Latets yum thoroughly hosed?!

[Doug Fordham]

Evo Test - Jim C. wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 14:34 +1100, Steven Haigh wrote:
>
>   
>> I just get:
>> # yum check-update
>> Setting up repositories
>> extras-dev: ################################################## 2/2
>> Reading repository metadata in from local files
>> Killed
>>
>> Even though I didn't kill the process. This is after about 3 minutes of
>> CPU thrashing. I'm guessing there's an internal timer that is triggering a
>> kill...
>>     
>
> Originally,I thought it was pirut. It was not pirut which uses yum. it
> was not yum, which uses sqlite. It was sqlite.
>
> Bug report:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=179547
>
> Thanks to those that figured which package was stealing all memory. At
> least I experienced what an OOM error does to the system. In the bug
> report is a link to the older version. The version is older, so the rpm
> --oldpackage is needed.
>
> Jim
>
>   
Kernel: 2.6.15-1.1884_FC5
sqlite-3.3.3-1

Just executed a successful update utilizing the following:
yum --exclude=totem --exclude=openoffice --exclude=neon 
--exclude=cadaver --exclude=rpm --exclude=rpm-build --exclude=rpm-devel 
--exclude=rpm-build --exclude=neon-devel --exclude=rpm-python 
--exclude=rpm-libs update