yum and low memory kernel behaviour

[seth vidal]

> Of course it can't do it without swapping.
> But it *should* swap and run slowly rather than kill off the machine
> with the OOM_killer.
> Whose problem is it?  The kernel for not managing swap right, or yum for
> not allowing the use of swap space for making the pickle?

I do not know of anyway of a userland application to force the kernel to
not allow the use of swap. I can tell you definitely that I have not
intentionally programmed yum to do that.

-sv