seth vidal (skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: > On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 14:32 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > seth vidal (skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: > > > 3GB is way beyond the norm and if it is during the transaction points to > > > SOMETHING in the rpm transaction exploding in memory. > > > > Is this memory usage as measured by the 'virtual' size, or the RSS > > of the process? Virtual size (as reported by top) tends to not accurately > > reflect the actual amount of memory used. > > > > will the VSize be dramatically MORE or less than actual memory used? More. For example, yum-updatesd on my box has: VmPeak: 275540 kB VmSize: 274512 kB VmLck: 0 kB VmHWM: 13916 kB VmRSS: 13908 kB Bill -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list