Yum is a memory pig to the tune of 3GB

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 14:32 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> seth vidal (skvidal at fedoraproject.org) said: 
> > 3GB is way beyond the norm and if it is during the transaction points to
> > SOMETHING in the rpm transaction exploding in memory.
> 
> Is this memory usage as measured by the 'virtual' size, or the RSS
> of the process? Virtual size (as reported by top) tends to not accurately
> reflect the actual amount of memory used.
> 

will the VSize be dramatically MORE or less than actual memory used?

What I've been measuring lately for yum VSize is within 10% of RSS.

-sv