Rawhide yum-update eats ~1.2GB of memory.

[Gilboa Davara]

On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 10:43 -0700, Andrew Farris wrote: 
> Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > P.S. I'd update the release notes about it:
> > (Read: Use 32bit if you have less then 2GB of memory)
> 
> I run a vmware fusion vm with x64 and 1Gb ram (1Gb swap) and it works fine in 
> most cases.  The memory consumption is higher, but usable in that configuration. 
>   Generally, people using F9 are not going to update hundreds of packages at 
> once as is the case with rawhide, so the enormous load you're putting on the 
> machine is already atypical for general use.  You might want to look at the 
> memory footprint for updating 20 packages at a time and see if that works much 
> better for you.

True...
Unless you install a pristine copy of F8 today, after ~5 months of life.
A pure guesstimation - but according to updates [1], we are talking
about 1000-4000 packages.

- Gilboa
[1] http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/8/x86_64/