Re: Yum is a memory pig to the tune of 3GB

[Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>]

seth vidal (skvidal fedoraproject org) said: 
> 3GB is way beyond the norm and if it is during the transaction points to
> SOMETHING in the rpm transaction exploding in memory.

Is this memory usage as measured by the 'virtual' size, or the RSS
of the process? Virtual size (as reported by top) tends to not accurately
reflect the actual amount of memory used.

Bill