Well a reboot would have the consequence of killing all processes and free up memory...
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On 20 Jul 2010 22:25, "James B. Byrne" <byrnejb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Mon, July 19, 2010 16:01, James Hogarth wrote:
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>> From: "James Hogarth" <james.hogarth@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: 19 Jul 2010 21:00
>> Subject: Re: Problem with yum
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>> With the kernel logging an out of memory error? My first instinct
>> would be
>> to check free to see the status of RAM and swap and perhaps end
>> unnecessary
>> processes..
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>
> What I ended up doing was rebooting the server and that seems to
> have cleared the problem. Trying yum clear all did not work as the
> yum process stalled as before.
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