-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Martin Langhoff wrote: > One the last rounds of testing the new release of OLPCXS, I rebuilt it > with fresh packages from F9 update and started testing the installer. > Funny thing, the install did not complete -- instead, the machine > would switch off after spending a few minutes trying to install > selinux-policy-targeted. > > After a few attempts to diagnose the problem, I managed to see vmstat > go all the way down to almost 0 memory just before the machine turned > itself off. This particular machine has ~980MB RAM available to the > OS. Tested on another machine with a proper 1GB memory, vmstat hit > bottom at ~10MB free while installing selinux-policy-targeted but > quickly recovered. > > I know I've installed earlier F9 based spins on machines with 512 MB > of physical RAM so this seems like a fairly bad regression, specially > considering that I'll soon need to install this on a machine with > 256MB RAM. > > So I suspect we have 2 problems > > - Selinux-policy-targeted instalation seems to have balooned into a > memory hog between f9-release and f9-updates > > - Anaconda OOMs without a warning or useful message to the user > > Has anyone else seen this? Diagnostics to recommend? I can > successfully log anything to disk until moments before the OOM > shutdown. > > Will post version numbers of the selinux rpm tomorrow when I get back > in front of the offending machine and installer image. Apologies for > the vagueness :-) > > cheers, > > > > m selinux-policy-targeted is a memory hog, but it should not have changed that drastically in updates. Is this repeatable? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkkUVZQACgkQrlYvE4MpobNfJQCgkYO4qEHY74KbRuTHrM16FgNg F7MAn2IK03lRzhhBO4RfMSs57ysHfY/L =QegF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
