On Mon, 2022-08-29 at 10:53 +0200, Fabio Valentini wrote:
On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 9:53 AM Brian (bex) Exelbierd bexelbie@redhat.com wrote:
I wonder if we should take another approach here. Assuming no serious bugs in dnf, rather than tuning dnf for low memory environments could we suggest those folks use Fedora Silverblue, CoreOS, or IoT?
Just speaking for myself: I have Fedora installations on 1G RAM VM servers that I've been upgrading for many years now, and they just keep chugging along as of Fedora 35. If I would need to either 1) pay twice the money per month to keep this setup, or 2) spend a few days reprovisioning the servers with Fedora CoreOS 36 (assuming it doesn't suffer from the same problem), then I'd consider neither of these options a desirable outcome.
There *is* a workaround, BTW - I didn't mention this in my original mail, and probably should have. At least according to discussion in the bug, microdnf works OK. So you can use that instead.