Fedora 13 continuing the tradition of being an update monster

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed May 12 15:21:13 UTC 2010


Ralf Corsepius (rc040203 at freenet.de) said: 
> > And right now the values used are scaled to the hardware we have at
> > hand.  So adjusting it wouldn't help Fedora one bit.
> 
> Makes me wonder about your HW.
> 
> Fact is, extending the limits to 200MB (the hard-coded limit is 100MB) I 
> having no problems with building drpms from packages which are in the 
> order of 150MB-200MB (unpacked size) on standard x86_64-PC hardware with 
> 4GB RAM.

Due to how the tree is composed, if updates and a tree are being composed
at the same time, it could be making 5 or more deltas simultaneously...

Bill



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