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When trying to uninstall a kernel-devel package, rpm eats so much memory that it gets killed by the OOM reaper. A machine with 700 MB of free memory is insufficient for it, so I suspect a memory leak. The last line shown is this: D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Basenames create mode=0x42 I've run the following line in an effort to reduce problem areas, but still no go: rpm -e -vvvvvvvv --justdb --noscripts --notriggers kernel-devel-2.6.19-1.2912.fc7
Run valgrind if you suspect a memory leak. I'll save you the trouble: FIxed in rpm-4.4.9 release UPSTREAM
When can we expect an updated package? :)
Oh, right, Jeff. Could you point to a patch then so that it can be applied to Red Hat's tree?
Both the problem now that skipDirs is no longer used, and the tagged fileindex patch from Michael Schroder of Suse are well known and don't need to be pointed to, thank you... Out of curiosity, how many kernels do you have, something like > 6? Yum installonlyn plugin is supposed to keep the number of kernel(-devel) packages tolerable, but of course that wont help if you manually install them with rpm.
[root@chronos ~]# rpm -q kernel-devel | wc -l 56 :) I don't use yum, but that's an entirely different discussion and one we need not go in to here.
With 56 kernel devel packages, you are looking at an algorithm that scales something like $ rpm -ql kernel-PAE-devel | wc -l 14374 (5.6e1 * 1.5e3) ** 3 Ignoring multiplication details, that is ~10**12, a very large number indeed. Both rpm memory and processor usage scale as (# of duplicate basenames) ** 3. But be sure to use valgrind to look for memory leaks! Panu: BTW, the SuSE patch causes rpmdb segfaults if you downrev rpm without doing --rebuilddb.
Any alternative way to purge the entries out of the database? It's easy to remove the files manually for this package.
I can also add that I had the same number of "kernel" packages, but there was no problem uninstalling those.
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Reassigning to owner after bugzilla made a mess, sorry about the noise...
Wrt comment #7, one way to get rid of those kernel-devel packages is to temporarily downgrade to rpm 4.4.2 from F7 (non-update). Yes it's .. sick. Or build a custom rpm with skipDir, but downgrading is likely to be easier and faster.
The machine in question has been replaced, so I am in no need to have this fixed right now. The old system is still accessible if you want me to perform tests, but the rush is no longer there. (I still think this should be fixed though in case it happens again.)
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