On 05/27/2011 07:01 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 27.05.2011 17:54, schrieb Kevin Kofler: >> Reindl Harald wrote: >>> yes, 150 MB >> >> That's not enough. Try again with 1 or 2 GiB of swap space > > as said, i had a machine with 5 GB swap and the braindead oom-killer > started to shoot down process long before the swap was used > > the only real solution is to keep in mind not throwing away ressources by > developing software and seeing yum use 400 and more MB RAM feels like somewhere > contact to reality is lost because a whole os even with GUI will run with this > amount of memory and not soo long ago with 192 MB you had a Win2000-Srv > with DNS, httpd, domain-controller and Photoshop, Word, Outlook > and CorelDraw open without crahsing anything FWIW, yum >= 3.4.0 from rawhide should consume a whole lot less memory than the current F <= 15 versions. This is especially noticeable on huge updates such as entire distro-upgrade where the savings can easily be well over 100MB worth of memory for a default'ish install (the exact amount obviously depends on how many packages are installed on the system). - Panu - -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
