Hi,

I just tried -unsuccesfully- to update a 7.2 box with online-update when it started barfing, and eventually crashing on me. Upon retry I let a 'top' run alongside and it seems that yast2 / you is / was the culprit. I think the 'top' screendump below speaks for itself. Another minute and yast2 will have consumed all mem+swap. It's just luck the kernel didn't panic but killed yast2 instead.

I understand that having 128 MB in a machine is not state-of-the-art nowadays, but come on, it's a firewall running named+sshd, nothing more. Do I have a corrupted install, or is this A) normal and B) unavoidable ?

I realise this is somewhat out of place at suse-security, but since it directly concerns the online update facility, I posted here nonetheless.

The updates concerned were apache, bzip(?) glibc and openssl. However, yast2 crashed before it could start updating glibc.*

Oh, P.S.: I'd like to express my concern at the disappearance of Yast1 with Suse version 8. Yast2 is all very gooey and nice and stuff, but I can easily break my [TAB] key on my keyboard just trying to do anything with yast2 over a remote link. For instance, searching, selecting and installing 1 simple package with yast2 from the DVD takes at least 10-20 tab- events. Changing some things in the runlevel editor is so bad I cannot even start counting the seemingly endless tab-tab-tab-tab-space-tab-space-tab-space-tab-tab-tab-tab-tab- tab-tab-cursordown-tab-tab-tab-tab-space-tab-space-tab events... But yeah, this IS misplaced at this mailinglist... true... excuse me.

Comments ?

Greetings, Maarten

44 processes: 43 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 0.6% user, 2.5% system, 0.0% nice, 96.7% idle Mem: 125224K av, 122276K used, 2948K free, 0K shrd, 2980K buff Swap: 136544K av, 135996K used, 548K free 18696K cached

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 9137 root 9 0 211M 84M 3572 S 0.0 69.1 2:42 y2bignfat 9138 root 9 0 211M 84M 3572 S 0.0 69.1 0:00 y2bignfat 9139 root 9 0 211M 84M 3572 S 0.0 69.1 0:03 y2bignfat 10693 root 17 0 5684 5684 516 D 1.1 4.5 0:00 rpm 9124 root 9 0 2420 1364 792 S 0.0 1.0 0:00 named 9125 root 9 0 2420 1364 792 S 0.0 1.0 0:00 named 9126 root 9 0 2420 1364 792 S 0.0 1.0 0:00 named 9127 root 9 0 2420 1364 792 S 0.0 1.0 0:00 named 9128 root 9 0 2420 1364 792 S 0.0 1.0 0:00 named 8858 maarten 12 0 552 504 492 R 1.0 0.4 0:14 top 8844 maarten 9 0 552 304 244 S 0.0 0.2 0:01 sshd 3581 maarten 9 0 552 292 224 S 0.0 0.2 0:01 sshd 835 root 9 0 248 204 180 S 0.0 0.1 0:14 syslogd 2893 root 9 0 212 164 132 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 cron