Rawhide yum-update eats ~1.2GB of memory.

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 11:00 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> 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.
> 

Okay so for x86_64 rawhide yum is going to use about 450-500MB of memory
for the package lists and depsolving. However, where you're seeing
things run out of memory is where rpmlib is running the transaction. If
you file this as a bug, file it against rpm since that's where the
memory use is increasing so much.

-sv