On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 15:56, Satish Balay wrote: > On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, seth vidal wrote: > > > - implemented yum makecache. It will make the pickles of all the > > metadata for all enabled repositories - handy as a cron job to run at > > night when you're not using the machine. > > This appears to bring my machine to its knees - triggering oom-killer > - which is killing user proceses (and letting yum continue the havoc) > > > Let me know what's broken in bugzilla, preferably. > > Will add the session log to bugzilla. > It's not committing havoc on anything. It does use a lot of memory depending on how much metadata we're talking about. B/c it's reading all of it and writing all of it back out. I'll look into seeing if I can make it lighter but it may well get heavy. Now, I've loaded ALL of fedora development tree before and everything there was only 250MB - so I'm not sure what you're seeing this Gigabytes from. -sv
