recover from broken yum transaction

Martin Langhoff martin.langhoff at gmail.com
Mon Sep 22 04:53:37 UTC 2008


On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Not much - if it's OOM'ing the only real option is:
>  1. get more memory
>  2. have it use less memory
>
> if you want to pursue 2 that's fine - but to be very clear - everything
> after:
> Running RPM Transaction Test
>
> is in rpm-land as to trimming out memory/cpu usage. There's very little
> yum can do there.

I *think* that what Michael is talking about is that when you get to
that point yum is still running and can be a substantial part of the
memory pressure.

Perhaps yum's memory footprint could be trimmed? If by then it's
loaded hard-to-shed things (like python libs) perhaps it can exec a
minimalistic "yum stage 2" that drives rpm?

cheers,



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