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).
- Panu -