Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

[Jesse Keating]

On 11/09/2012 09:57 AM, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>
> Except that rpm (and yum) use a lot LESS memory these days than they did
> in the RHEL-5 era, which I think was used as a comparison here. That's
> not where all the memory has gone, quite the contrary.

While that may be true, the amount of ram (free -m) used during an 
install *triples* when we get to the desolve and package install phase. 
  In my most recent test the "used" number went from roughly 550m just 
before the packages step to 1645 during.

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Jesse Keating
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