Re: memory usage with latest Fedora install

[Orion Poplawski <orion cora nwra com>]

Orion Poplawski wrote:
> Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > On Fri, 11 May 2007 10:04:20 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> >
> > > I'm testing a text mode PXE/NFS install of the latest Fedora on an
> > > old PIII with 320MB RAM.  So far the install as been running for over
> > > 14 hours.  System is swapping and this is slowing things down.
> >
> > That seems quite excessive to me. How many packages do you install?
> >
> > My basic xen-vm-installs (on a PIII-500, 96MB RAM, 128MB Swap, text
> > mode) take roughly half an hour for RHEL5. That's for 500-600 MB of 
> > packages.
>
> This is fedora rawhide.  Previous versions work fine.  I'm installing 
> around 1000 packages.

Looks like it's being consumed by packages in /tmp/cache/<repo>/packages 
which is a ramfs, hence the consumption of file cache memory.

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