On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 4:54 PM Benjamin Kircher <benjamin.kircher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > What are dnf’s minimum memory requirements? It came as a surprise to me that a simple `dnf check-update` is getting OOM’ed by the kernel on a (ok, fairly small) 512MB VM. > > > [root@node ~]# dnf check-update > Killed > > [root@node ~]# free -h > total used free shared buff/cache available > Mem: 480Mi 137Mi 292Mi 0.0Ki 50Mi 329Mi > Swap: 0B 0B 0B > > [root@node ~]# cat /etc/os-release |grep -i pretty_name > PRETTY_NAME="Fedora 29 (Server Edition)” > > [root@node ~]# dnf --version > 4.0.4 > Installed: dnf-0:4.0.4-1.fc29.noarch at Tue 30 Oct 2018 03:38:30 PM GMT > Built : Fedora Project at Mon 15 Oct 2018 12:00:52 PM GMT > > Installed: rpm-0:4.14.2-1.fc29.x86_64 at Tue 30 Oct 2018 03:37:40 PM GMT > Built : Fedora Project at Wed 22 Aug 2018 08:07:47 AM GMT > > > According to [1], 1GB is required for a Fedora (desktop?) install but right underneath is a note that says only if I want to install it with lots of packages selected upfront. > > > With F28 Server (ships with dnf 2.7.5) this worked perfectly fine on an equally sized VM. > > Anyway, is memory consumption a thing with the new libdnf-in-C++ efforts? Could a look into microdnf be a thing for me? > > Any advice appreciated. I've not seen issues with it running on ARM devices with 512 Mb of RAM, and there are some that run it on devices with 256Mb but that tends to be a minimal image with no graphics _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
