# Dnf-makecache.timer is a major liability

**URL:** <https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/dnf-makecache-timer-is-a-major-liability/15371>\
**Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support\
**Tags:** rocky-linux-9\
**Created:** [August 7, 2024, 11:22pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/dnf-makecache-timer-is-a-major-liability/15371 "2024-08-07T23:22:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![nzeid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e99b99/32.png) [@nzeid](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/nzeid)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2024, 11:22pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/dnf-makecache-timer-is-a-major-liability/15371/1 "2024-08-07T23:22:09Z")

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Posting this here to exchange notes before I go to wherever `dnf` lives.

For utterly baffling reasons, the version of `dnf` on Rocky Linux 9.x (current one is 4.14) needs literally gigabytes of memory for `dnf makecache --timer`. Several of my VMs run at capacity, and the spike of memory caused by this job leaves the box swapping or frozen.

I’ve been happily disabling this unit across all RHEL 9 boxes for maybe a year now but it stung me again on a new box a few days ago (I forgot to disable it) and now I’m wondering if anyone out there is even aware of this issue.

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