High CPU load averages because of yum info

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Submitted by SoftwareLibrarian on Sat, 05/21/2011 - 13:59 Pro Licensee

I'm seeing periodic very high CPU loads - when I check running processes I see results like the following:

ID Owner CPU Command
19713 root 82.2 % /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/yum info

Can you give me a clue as to what I can do about this?

TIA

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Closed (fixed)

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Submitted by JamieCameron on Sat, 05/21/2011 - 21:21

Virtualmin runs yum info periodically to fetch the list of available packages for update, which is displayed on the System Information page. Unfortunately yum can often by rather slow and CPU intensive :-(

You can increase the period between updates at Webmin -> System -> Virtualmin Package Updates -> Module Config, by setting "Hours to cache updated and available packages for" to something higher, like 24 hours.

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Submitted by SoftwareLibrarian on Sun, 05/22/2011 - 05:11 Pro Licensee

Thanks - will do...