Bug 438450

Summary:	asus eee uninstallable due to excessive memory use.
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Dave Jones <davej>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Dave Jones 2008-03-21 00:03:52 UTC

The Eee 'only' has 512MB, and 4GB of flash, so swap is kind of out of the
question.  The only way I managed to get the installer to complete without
getting oom-killed is by temporarily adding swap on a usb memory stick during
the install.

I'm not sure why our memory usage during install has blown up so dramatically
over the last few releases, but it seems to be getting worse, especially on 'no
swap' machines.

I'm uncertain if the problem is anaconda, or yum at this point, because
debugging the eee is blocked on an intel gfx driver bug that prevents the use of
tty2.

As an absolute worse-case hack we could do swap-on-a-file on the installed
partition if no swap partition is defined. Ugly, but it'd make things succeed
for now.

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2008-03-21 03:19:00 UTC

One thing that's hurting us right now is that we're always putting stage2.img
into RAM as a result of the work for stage2=.  Chris is working on fixing that
up.  Beyond that, the biggest thing that's going to be impacting and making us
use more memory is more packages ==> more metadata :-/

Comment 2 Chris Lumens 2008-03-24 20:02:17 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 438377 ***