Josh Coffman wrote:
--- "Michael A. Peters" <mpeters(a)mac.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 21:03 +0200, Eric Tanguy
>wrote:
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>>Using yumex use a lot of memory but it seems that
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>yumex does not
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>>restitute it. You use yumex, you look for
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>something so first in your
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>>default repos and after you try in other repos but
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>at each time you
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>>click on refresh on the repos tab yumex does not
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>restitute the memory.
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>>If i try this 4 or 5 times yumex saturate my
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>memory and the only
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>>possibility is to close yumex and reopen it.
>>Someone could confirm this and/or explain me why ?
>>Thanks
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>I've noticed that too.
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Although I'm still learing it and still using yumex
for mostly, smartpm seems like a better package
manager.
It's faster and claims to resolve packages better than
yum.
http://www.smartpm.org/
I would try smartpm but there is no FC4 version. I guess I will stick
with Yumex. BTW, is there a bug filed on the memory issue?
--
Robin Laing