Running "yum update", yum appears to perform fine and appears to
finish
but continues to reside in memory:
...
Updating : lftp 2/4
Cleanup : lftp 3/4
Cleanup : freetype 4/4
Updated:
freetype.i386 0:2.2.1-25.el5_5 lftp.i386 0:3.7.11-4.el5_5.3
Complete!
# ps -ef|grep yum
root 1384 1336 0 06:21 pts/0 00:00:00 grep yum
root 2229 1 0 Jul06 ? 00:00:11 /usr/bin/python -tt
/usr/sbin/yum-updatesd
....
Running the above "ps -ef|grep yum" again after composing this email,
process 2229 is still running (several minutes later). And this machine
isn't particularly busy:
# vmstat
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system--
-----cpu------
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy
id wa st
0 0 64 42268 73752 139556 0 0 0 2 8 4 1 0
99 0 0
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