Quoth Ralf Corsepius: > On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 16:53 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Seth Vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Not much - if it's OOM'ing the only real option is: > > > 1. get more memory > > > 2. have it use less memory > > > > > > if you want to pursue 2 that's fine - but to be very clear - everything > > > after: > > > Running RPM Transaction Test > > > > > > is in rpm-land as to trimming out memory/cpu usage. There's very little > > > yum can do there. > > > > I *think* that what Michael is talking about is that when you get to > > that point yum is still running and can be a substantial part of the > > memory pressure. > > > > Perhaps yum's memory footprint could be trimmed? > How much memory do you have? > > I am able to run yum (FC9) on an i586 w/ 64MB RAM and 256MB swap. > > In the past, yum occasionally had OOM'ed, but this hasn't happened for > quite a while. The key to me had been to slim down the kernel memory > requirements (Switching off SELinux worked wonders! This particular > machine OOMs when booting with SELinux enabled) > > Ralf Right, I run yum on a similar (i586, 128M of ram, plenty of swap) machine and it works great nowadays. Regards, -- Conrad Meyer <konrad@xxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
