On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 18:27 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: > On 02/18/2011 04:53 PM, Chris Lumens wrote: > >> Traditionally yum has used (rpm-header, path) tuple as the "key" for > >> callback to locate the package to-be-installed, but this has the > >> downside of keeping the full rpm headers of all installed packages > >> to be loaded throughout the entire transaction, wasting (tens of) > >> megabytes of memory when it only really needs is nevra info to locate > >> the relevant yum package object. > > > > This sounds great! > > > > What release are you intending this to go into? Just for master, or for > > F15 as well? > > Both. Like said, these patches alone don't really do anything at all > visibly (unless I've screwed up something), and should actually be safe > all the way to RHEL 5 (but lets leave that aside for now). I do hope to > have the yum bits make it into F15 so we can then flick the switch and > have anaconda magically use much, much less memory. > Define 'much' When you mentioned this on yum-devel you said 10s of megabytes of memory. what number are we talking about? -sv _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
