Bug 441262 - yum-update + RPM both eat more then 1.2GB.
Summary: yum-update + RPM both eat more then 1.2GB.
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 472507
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: rpm
Version: 9
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Panu Matilainen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-04-07 13:34 UTC by Gilboa Davara
Modified: 2008-11-28 16:48 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2008-11-28 16:48:08 UTC
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yum update log. (66.12 KB, text/plain)
2008-04-07 13:34 UTC, Gilboa Davara 		no flags Details
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Description Gilboa Davara 2008-04-07 13:34:16 UTC 
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
Comment 1 Gilboa Davara 2008-04-07 13:34:17 UTC 
Created attachment 301518 [details]
yum update log.
Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 09:02:08 UTC 
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
Comment 3 Panu Matilainen 2008-11-28 16:48:08 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 472507 ***
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