yum / dist-upgrade / memory + depmod

[Reindl Harald]

Am 27.05.2011 20:50, schrieb Panu Matilainen:
> On 05/27/2011 07:01 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>
>>
>> Am 27.05.2011 17:54, schrieb Kevin Kofler:
>>> Reindl Harald wrote:
>>>> yes, 150 MB
>>>
>>> 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).

thank you for the information

this sounds good and gives me back some feeling that linux-systems will
not raise their hardware-requriements over and over - ok modern
systems have hughe memory but in case of virtual machines it has
bad side-effects giving machines more memory they normally need
because it is really used for caching pages and so the total amount
of virtual machines per host will be degraded

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