Reducing Fedora memory footprint?

[Andy Green]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Thursday 23 November 2006 06:55, Gilboa Davara wrote:
>> especially when it comes to CPU/memory intensive tasks such as
>> dep-solving.
> 
> Except that the depsolving is done by rpm libraries which are C, so invalid 
> argument.

I was told by JBJ that the cause of the memory bloat is rpmlib 
maintaining in memory two lists of filepaths from every package 
involved.  One is apparently trying to detect symlinks by holding device 
and inode information along with the filepath, and the other is a btree 
type representation of each path level that is rapidly searchable.  He 
had ideas for fixing both if anyone wants to reach out.  I took a look 
at the sources and crept away with my tail between my legs.

-Andy