yum / dist-upgrade / memory + depmod

[Reindl Harald]

Am 27.05.2011 12:18, schrieb Kevin Kofler:
> Reindl Harald wrote:
>> tonight on a virtual machine with 512 MB RAM yum-upgrade
>> from fedora 13 to fedora 14, oom-killer played butcher while
>> refreshing the kmod-open-vm-tools while depmod was running
> 
> Do you have any swap space configured? You should have some.
> 
>         Kevin Kofler

yes, 150 MB

but usually OOM-Killer is a stupid blind butcher which i have seen
killing processes even on machines with some GB swap long before
swap was ever used

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