bingo! that seems to fix things. so for anyone who got themselves in the same state, just: rpm -F python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.i386.rpm and then the world is happy again. On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 08:24:51AM -0700, Joe Pruett wrote: > > it isn't futex. strace shows it going into a brk() loop which explains > > the huge memory growth. sure looks like a bug in yum or sqlite. time to > > dive into python debugging... > > I notice there's an update to python-sqlite. Does the problem occur if that > is upgraded along with or before sqlite itself? > > >