Am 27.05.2011 20:50, schrieb Panu Matilainen: > 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). thank you for the information this sounds good and gives me back some feeling that linux-systems will not raise their hardware-requriements over and over - ok modern systems have hughe memory but in case of virtual machines it has bad side-effects giving machines more memory they normally need because it is really used for caching pages and so the total amount of virtual machines per host will be degraded
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