yum update took 99.99% of cpu

[Tim]

Tim:
>> Might be easier to just pipe the text output from "top" to a file, a
>> few times, and post those text files.

JD:
> that would contain cursor postioning codes which would really mess
> up the text file.
> As the adage says: A picture tells a thousand words.

Hmm, I thought top had an option for a plain text output, but I can't
see anything suitable in the man file.  Maybe, long ago, when I did
something like that, I just did "less -R output" ("output" being the top
text file).

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[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64

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a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.