Bug 484221
Summary: | Error running ***: Cannot allocate memory | ||||||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Karel Volný <kvolny> | ||||
Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list> | ||||
Status: | CLOSED CANTFIX | QA Contact: | Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation> | ||||
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
Priority: | low | ||||||
Version: | 5.3 | CC: | adkhune | ||||
Target Milestone: | rc | ||||||
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Hardware: | All | ||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||
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Last Closed: | 2010-02-12 20:16:51 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
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Description
Karel Volný
2009-02-05 15:24:30 UTC
After creating boot partition a small space of 2 MB is automatically gets created and then it says can not allocate memory for root partition as space for allocation is not sufficient though there is enough space for root partition. I don't know that there's really all that much we can do, unfortunately. The number of components that anaconda uses is really quite extensive and becoming moreso all the time, making it difficult to figure out where the memory work needs to be done. It's likely to be yum in this instance, but that's not always easy to pinpoint. yum is constantly working on performance enhancements. We've made some changes in RHEL6/rawhide anaconda to store the install image where it won't consume so much memory. However, none of those fixes are good backport candidates. My only real advise is that if you've got the recommended amount of memory and are still seeing memory-related problems, go with a swap partition and anaconda will make use of that as soon as it's formatted. |