Bug 184332

Summary:	anaconda consumes all memory then dies during installation
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Lonni J Friedman <netllama>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Lonni J Friedman 2006-03-08 00:33:33 UTC

Description of problem:
On an HP xw9300 (tested with 4GB & 8GB RAM), attempts to install RHEL4-U3
(final) fail, with anaconda hanging just after the disk is formatted.  Watching
'top' I see anaconda consuming more and more memory until it finally dies with
an exception & traceback that ends with "OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory

How reproducible:
every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Attempt to install RHEL4-U3
2.after disks are formatted, the installer will hang
3.
  
Actual results:
anaconda consumes all system memory, then generates an exception

Expected results:
Installation completes successfully (as it does for Update2)

Additional info:
Interestingly, the 32bit (x86) version works fine on this same system.

Comment 1 Peter Jones 2006-03-08 06:08:18 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 183930 ***