Re: [CentOS] yum consumes machine (load average soars to 47)

On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 09:29 +0000, Joseph Haig wrote:

----- Original Message ---- From: Daniel Senie dts@senie.com To: centos@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,

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In the thread that start here

http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2006-August/069126.html

There are not only a couple different ways to do the update safely, but instructions that help if certain rpm abberations have been caused by the abortive first attempt.

HTH Bill