On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 03:12:27AM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 02:39 -0400, Gregory Woodbury wrote: > > I have a small memory notebook (old Dell Latitude) with only 64MB of > > RAM. It is running FC3t3+rawhide (2004-10-23) using XFCE. I mostly use > > it as an intelligent terminal to other machines across the LAN, however > > I expect it to be able to do other things (very) slowly when I need it > > to do so. The system _should_ swap to disk when necessary, but recent > > kernels have been more inclined to invoke the OOM killer and kill off > > various services. > > > > Yum 2.1.10-3 is very good at trigerring this problem. Trying to create > > the pickle for the development repository will consistently kill the > > machine. > > The pickle for the development repository would be about 200MB of memory > to read then write out. > > There's no way to do what you want to do in 64M of ram w/o swapping. > > -sv Of course it can't do it without swapping. But it *should* swap and run slowly rather than kill off the machine with the OOM_killer. Whose problem is it? The kernel for not managing swap right, or yum for not allowing the use of swap space for making the pickle? -- G.Wolfe Woodbury `- -' RHCT U The Line Eater is a boojum!
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