recover from broken yum transaction

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 16:53 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > Not much - if it's OOM'ing the only real option is:
> >  1. get more memory
> >  2. have it use less memory
> >
> > if you want to pursue 2 that's fine - but to be very clear - everything
> > after:
> > Running RPM Transaction Test
> >
> > is in rpm-land as to trimming out memory/cpu usage. There's very little
> > yum can do there.
> 
> I *think* that what Michael is talking about is that when you get to
> that point yum is still running and can be a substantial part of the
> memory pressure.
> 
> Perhaps yum's memory footprint could be trimmed?
How much memory do you have?

I am able to run yum (FC9) on an i586 w/ 64MB RAM and 256MB swap.

In the past, yum occasionally had OOM'ed, but this hasn't happened for
quite a while. The key to me had been to slim down the kernel memory
requirements (Switching off SELinux worked wonders! This particular
machine OOMs when booting with SELinux enabled)

Ralf