> 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? I do not know of anyway of a userland application to force the kernel to not allow the use of swap. I can tell you definitely that I have not intentionally programmed yum to do that. -sv