On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 10:19, Hedemark, Magnus wrote: > 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. fewer things to load into memory. -sv