Greg Knaddison wrote: >My best solutions for this when I encountered it were >1)just do a couple packages at a time > > Even with one package, the pre-install stuff takes forever. Swapping is the only thing going on for a long, long time. >2)RAM is cheaper than the 30 minutes it will take you to figure out a solution > > The motherboard is maxed out unfortunately. >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. > Thanks Greg, I will try 2.4. I'll update yum tonight : ) - Chris
