Daniel Senie
2006-Sep-05 09:00 UTC
[CentOS] yum consumes machine (load average soars to 47)
I was using yum to update packages a few nights ago on one of my
servers. The update of rpm packages appeared to die. Since then,
commands like 'yum check-update' will consume the system. This is a
dual-core Pentium-D, with X64 (and I'm running 64 bit). One CPU pegs
at 100% running yum, but whatever it's doing on disk really is the
bigger issue. It so consumes the disk subsystem as everything else
grinds to a halt and the system becomes unusable (likely swapping
itself silly).
I'd really like to get this resovled and apply errata. What I need to
know is where to start looking. I've tried a 'yum clean all' but
that
doesn't help.
Dan
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Joseph Haig
2006-Sep-05 09:29 UTC
[CentOS] yum consumes machine (load average soars to 47)
----- Original Message ---- From: Daniel Senie <dts at senie.com> To: centos at centos.org Sent: Tuesday, 5 September, 2006 10:00:49 AM Subject: [CentOS] yum consumes machine (load average soars to 47) I was using yum to update packages a few nights ago on one of my servers. The update of rpm packages appeared to die. Since then, commands like 'yum check-update' will consume the system. This is a dual-core Pentium-D, with X64 (and I'm running 64 bit). One CPU pegs at 100% running yum, but whatever it's doing on disk really is the bigger issue. It so consumes the disk subsystem as everything else grinds to a halt and the system becomes unusable (likely swapping itself silly). I'd really like to get this resovled and apply errata. What I need to know is where to start looking. I've tried a 'yum clean all' but that doesn't help. Dan ----------------------------------- There is a known issue with sqlite and python-sqlite. If $ rpm -qa |grep sqlite shows that you have sqlite 3.3.3 then you must also have python-sqlite 1.1.7 or yum will freeze, which is obviously a problem as you cannot then use yum to solve it. I managed to fix this with: $ rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.i386.rpm Hope this helps, Joe