recover from broken yum transaction

[Conrad Meyer]

Quoth Ralf Corsepius:
> On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 16:53 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> > 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?
> How much memory do you have?
> 
> I am able to run yum (FC9) on an i586 w/ 64MB RAM and 256MB swap.
> 
> In the past, yum occasionally had OOM'ed, but this hasn't happened for
> quite a while. The key to me had been to slim down the kernel memory
> requirements (Switching off SELinux worked wonders! This particular
> machine OOMs when booting with SELinux enabled)
> 
> Ralf

Right, I run yum on a similar (i586, 128M of ram, plenty of swap) machine and 
it works great nowadays.

Regards,
-- 
Conrad Meyer <konrad at tylerc.org>