On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 08:38 +0100, Bart van Kuik wrote: > Hi list, > > I've got a question on memory requirements of yum. I have a CentOS 5.0 box > running with 32 MB memory and 64 MB swapspace. It's running in Xen as a > virtual machine, that's why the memory is so small. I've got bind running, > which leaves about 10 megs of memory (i.e. the 'free' command returns > "used minus buffers/cache: 22" of a total 32). > > I've only got the standard CentOS repositories: > > $ ls /etc/yum.repos.d/ > CentOS-Base.repo > CentOS-Media.repo > > When I run yum (for instance 'yum -y install screen', it often hangs the > box, leaving it swapping for life. > > My questions: > What are yum's memory requirements? > Any tips on how I can best run yum with tight memory limits? > It really depends on the size of your repos - but a good minimum given the repos available is about 128M -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
