I have the same problem here... Anyone has something to say about this? Thanks. Julio. Simen Thoresen wrote: > CentOS 4.3 (SMP, x86_64, Athlon64 X2) with all pre-4.4 release updates > applied. > > Since I ran into the Yum issue at the previous upgrade, I first did > yum upgrade to get the list of packages (6 to install, 206 to update). > I then did > yum upgrade yum (which passed without issues) > yum upgrade sqlite (which passed without isseus). > > Fairly certain that yum now works correctly, I wanted to just do > another small upgrade before doing the rest, and did > yum upgrade samba > > [root at naboens ~]# yum upgrade samba > Setting up Upgrade Process > Setting up repositories > Reading repository metadata in from local files > <no progress> > > This seemed to hang, and a look at top showed yum consuming more and > more memory, the system starting to swap and bog down and then become > unresponsive (all swap exhausted, I was not quick enough to kill yum). > > I was able to reproduce this on a different machine (also x86_64, SMP > and Athlon64 X2), so it seems to be an actual problem. As I can play > around a bit more on this machine, I tried doing a yum upgrade > (without specifying samba) and it behaves the same (ie yum consuming > increasing amounts of memory while "Reading repository metadata (etc)". > > Has anyone else experienced and been able to resolve this? > > -S