Seth writes: > Use smaller, but dependency-resolved repositories. Which will come when I split off from RH9 and build a custom distro. For now I'm working from kickstarts against RH9. > So any given run only runs on a few hundred packages - rather than the > complete 1500 that are RHL. It turns out that this big memory issue only happens one time; the first time the system is updated. I rebooted the box, and for giggles ran yum update again and yum used ~11M tops.
