On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 09:59, Hedemark, Magnus wrote: > Are most of you seeing yum consuming in the neighborhood of ~100M of memory > when updating? Any ideas for how to reduce this? > Get rid of all headers, forever. It's not quite that simple but it's close. When an rpm transaction is run you have to load the header for each rpm you want to use in memory - this is a fact of life in the rpm python bindings. So you load in the header, it gets exploded in memory, and during the depresolution phase all the extra headers get loaded to resolve the deps. So at some point, once some other things get resolved, 'the loading all the headers into memory to depresolve' part will go away, but you will still need to load the headers for the actual install. Take a look at the size of anaconda or up2date when the transaction is actually running. They should be about the same size as yum. -sv
