Rawhide yum-update eats ~1.2GB of memory.

Gilboa Davara gilboad at gmail.com
Mon Apr 7 13:36:40 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 08:34 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 11:00 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > B9 updated to latest running on a VMWare virtual machine with 1GB RAM +
> > 512MB swap.
> > Running yum update dies on 
> > Updating: glib2 ...
> > error: Couldn't fork %post: Cannot allocate memory.
> > 
> 
> Okay so for x86_64 rawhide yum is going to use about 450-500MB of memory
> for the package lists and depsolving. 

Eeeek.
Are you expecting the same memory consumption under F9-release?

> However, where you're seeing
> things run out of memory is where rpmlib is running the transaction. If
> you file this as a bug, file it against rpm since that's where the
> memory use is increasing so much.

Done. [1]

> 
> -sv

- Gilboa
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=441262





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