On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 13:21:40 +0900, Naoki wrote
Hi all,
When deleting a kernel or kernel-source packages ( or as I just
did, about 10 at once ) why does RPM feel the need to eat hundreds
of megs of ram, the res popped up to 330mb and the virt was almost
600 at one stage.
The three kernels with source on my machine are 46417 files combined, that
would probably put you at around 155000 files to remove (with 10 kernels +
source). While I don't have the rpm source here to look at, I'll wager it was
keeping some in-memory lists of all those filenames to do whatever sanity
checks are necessary to remove the packages + whatever memory those routines
needed in order to run.
At least that's what I'd think. :-)
--
Chris
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