From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070223 Fedora/1.5.0.10-1.fc5 Firefox/1.5.0.10 pango-text Description of problem: If you watch the VmRSS field in /proc/<Pid of yum-updatesd>/status you will see that it grows over the time. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-updatesd-3.0.3-1.fc6 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start yum-updatesd 2. Watch VmRSS in /proc/<Pid of yum-updatesd>/status 3. Actual Results: The ResidentSetSize grows Expected Results: The ResidentSetSize should be constant !? Additional info: From one of my maschines: [root@p15125001 ~]# rpm -q fedora-release fedora-release-6-4 [root@p15125001 ~]$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 246700 242760 3940 0 2104 10800 -/+ buffers/cache: 229856 16844 Swap: 557048 557048 0 [root@p15125001 ~]# /etc/init.d/yum-updatesd restart Stopping yum-updatesd: [ OK ] Starting yum-updatesd: [ OK ] [root@p15125001 ~]# free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 246700 162764 83936 0 4108 35284 -/+ buffers/cache: 123372 123328 Swap: 557048 23924 533124 After that I did a 5min check on /proc/<Pid of yum-updatesd>/status on VmRSS. This is the result: 2007-03-13_14:35:01 PS: yum-updatesd PID: 9260 RSS: 9652 kb 2007-03-13_14:40:01 PS: yum-updatesd PID: 9260 RSS: 9652 kb 2007-03-13_14:45:02 PS: yum-updatesd PID: 9260 RSS: 9652 kb 2007-03-13_14:50:01 PS: yum-updatesd PID: 9260 RSS: 9652 kb 2007-03-13_14:55:02 PS: yum-updatesd PID: 9260 RSS: 9652 kb 2007-03-13_15:00:01 PS: yum-updatesd PID: 9260 RSS: 9652 kb 2007-03-13_15:05:01 PS: yum-updatesd PID: 9260 RSS: 9652 kb 2007-03-13_15:10:01 PS: yum-updatesd PID: 9260 RSS: 9652 kb 2007-03-13_15:15:03 PS: yum-updatesd PID: 9260 RSS: 13968 kb 2007-03-13_15:20:01 PS: yum-updatesd PID: 9260 RSS: 40524 kb 2007-03-13_15:25:01 PS: yum-updatesd PID: 9260 RSS: 40524 kb 2007-03-13_15:30:02 PS: yum-updatesd PID: 9260 RSS: 40524 kb 2007-03-13_15:35:02 PS: yum-updatesd PID: 9260 RSS: 40524 kb 2007-03-13_15:40:01 PS: yum-updatesd PID: 9260 RSS: 40524 kb 2007-03-13_15:45:01 PS: yum-updatesd PID: 9260 RSS: 40524 kb 2007-03-13_15:50:01 PS: yum-updatesd PID: 9260 RSS: 40524 kb 2007-03-13_15:55:02 PS: yum-updatesd PID: 9260 RSS: 40524 kb 2007-03-13_16:00:02 PS: yum-updatesd PID: 9260 RSS: 40524 kb 2007-03-13_16:05:02 PS: yum-updatesd PID: 9260 RSS: 40524 kb 2007-03-13_16:10:01 PS: yum-updatesd PID: 9260 RSS: 40524 kb 2007-03-13_16:15:02 PS: yum-updatesd PID: 9260 RSS: 47380 kb 2007-03-13_16:20:02 PS: yum-updatesd PID: 9260 RSS: 47380 kb 2007-03-13_16:25:01 PS: yum-updatesd PID: 9260 RSS: 47380 kb 2007-03-13_16:30:01 PS: yum-updatesd PID: 9260 RSS: 47380 kb 2007-03-13_16:35:01 PS: yum-updatesd PID: 9260 RSS: 47380 kb 2007-03-13_16:40:02 PS: yum-updatesd PID: 9260 RSS: 47380 kb 2007-03-13_16:45:05 PS: yum-updatesd PID: 9260 RSS: 47380 kb 2007-03-13_16:50:01 PS: yum-updatesd PID: 9260 RSS: 47380 kb 2007-03-13_16:55:02 PS: yum-updatesd PID: 9260 RSS: 47380 kb
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 231743 ***