Hi, This isue is problably known, but I wanted to bring it up anyway. ExecSum: Running a 64bit Fedora 7 Test 2 with 1GB RAM fails to update Long story: Yum failed me while trying to update from rawhide today: Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 50 Package(s) Update 702 Package(s) Remove 1 Package(s) Total download size: 976 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: [...] Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction Updating : libgcc ################### [ 1/1461] error: Couldn't fork %post: Cannot allocate memory The system was running X with default daemons. Memory usage shows this as the top five users: Tasks: 137 total, 2 running, 135 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 10.6%us, 1.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 88.1%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 1013676k total, 782344k used, 231332k free, 8788k buffers Swap: 522104k total, 452872k used, 69232k free, 164116k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 3983 paul 20 0 1002m 284m 19m R 9.9 28.7 32:17.87 firefox-bin 2582 root 20 0 568m 106m 4680 S 0.7 10.8 198:43.15 X 2931 paul 20 0 351m 24m 7496 S 0.0 2.5 7:38.91 gnome-terminal 2883 paul 20 0 288m 15m 8064 S 0.0 1.6 8:34.15 wnck-applet 2859 paul 20 0 267m 11m 9264 S 0.0 1.2 0:10.26 puplet Firefox had 3 pages open, nothing special (eg news pages). I was running 8 xterms, with either a bash command prompt, vi on a small file, or ssh. That alone takes up 406MB of my 1GB of ram. Looks a bit excessive to me. When yum died, i checked the above usage, so it looks like yum tried to use more then 300Mb of non shared RAM. That's pretty insane. Worst thing, is that it had *completed* all the dependancy checks, so I'm a bit confused why it still needs so much memory. All it needs at that point (it was installing the 1st rpm), is the list of 752 package filenames in an install-order list. Why is that taking up 300MB? Paul -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
