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

[Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>]

seth vidal (skvidal fedoraproject org) said: 
> On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 14:32 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> will the VSize be dramatically MORE or less than actual memory used?

More. For example, yum-updatesd on my box has:

VmPeak:	  275540 kB
VmSize:	  274512 kB
VmLck:	       0 kB
VmHWM:	   13916 kB
VmRSS:	   13908 kB

Bill