yum / dist-upgrade / memory + depmod

[Panu Matilainen]

On 05/27/2011 07:01 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
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> Am 27.05.2011 17:54, schrieb Kevin Kofler:
>> Reindl Harald wrote:
>>> yes, 150 MB
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>> That's not enough. Try again with 1 or 2 GiB of swap space
>
> as said, i had a machine with 5 GB swap and the braindead oom-killer
> started to shoot down process long before the swap was used
>
> the only real solution is to keep in mind not throwing away ressources by
> developing software and seeing yum use 400 and more MB RAM feels like somewhere
> contact to reality is lost because a whole os even with GUI will run with this
> amount of memory and not soo long ago with 192 MB you had a Win2000-Srv
> with DNS, httpd, domain-controller and Photoshop, Word, Outlook
> and CorelDraw open without crahsing anything

FWIW, yum >= 3.4.0 from rawhide should consume a whole lot less memory 
than the current F <= 15 versions. This is especially noticeable on huge 
updates such as entire distro-upgrade where the savings can easily be 
well over 100MB worth of memory for a default'ish install (the exact 
amount obviously depends on how many packages are installed on the system).

	- Panu -