On 11/29/05, Chris Betti <bettic@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As most of you know, running Yum with 128mb or less tends to swap a lot. > I am running installs and updates with Yum 2.1.11 and FC3 on a P166 with > 64mb of memory and a slow disk. Running Yum any time I am waiting for > the system is impossible, so currently I run overnight. > My best solutions for this when I encountered it were 1)just do a couple packages at a time 2)RAM is cheaper than the 30 minutes it will take you to figure out a solution Now you have: 3)update to a more modern version of yum like 2.4 I believe that the pickling that yum used to do was RAM intensive and that the new sqlite will be easier to do on RAM-hungry machines. Greg
