B9 updated to latest running on a VMWare virtual machine with 1GB RAM + 512MB swap. Running yum update dies on Updating: glib2 ... error: Couldn't fork %post: Cannot allocate memory. Memory use: $ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 989 980 9 0 4 167 -/+ buffers/cache: 807 181 Swap: 511 405 106 Once yum is killed (and caches are dropped) $ echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches $ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 989 235 754 0 0 22 -/+ buffers/cache: 211 777 Swap: 511 188 32 .. In short, yum update is eating >1.2GB of memory in-order to update 282 packages. Yum log attached. - Gilboa
Created attachment 301518 [details] yum update log.
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 472507 ***