Kai Schaetzl wrote:
RobertH wrote on Sun, 5 Oct 2008 13:39:26 -0700:
Why does disabling something that the centos website says is "highly recommended" (multiple times) fix this issue?
Because he has a non-standard setup. In case you didn't recognize: stopping mysqld also fixes his problem! He installed some software that affects threading and it's likely other things (that he didn't notice yet) are also affected. It's still weird, though. If you do not overwrite any base files you won't hit this problem.
That is not true. He is running on a VPS which probably does limiting on threads he can use. mysqld uses up quite a bit of threads, and yum's fastestmirror plugin uses up even more. So he hits a limit there - and yes, this happens with standard repositories (the php doesn't account for that behaviour). It's all the fault of the VPS he is running on.
Ralph