> > 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? Not to pick nits, but why are you running F7 test 2, out of curiousity? > Paul > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > -- novus ordo absurdum -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
