Fedora Core 2 wishlists

[Panu Matilainen]

On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 09:02, seth vidal wrote:
> > Python + rpm-python probably cause some significant memory overhead. For
> > a full upgradeset from RHL 9 -> FC1 apt topped at somewhere around 70MB
> > memory usage (very unscientific method of watching top used to measure),
> > yum grew to over 100MB, put anaconda on top of that and ... you're in
> > serious trouble on a 32MB box. 
> 
> the dep checking in yum is where memory is eaten from what I've seen.

Indeed - IIRC it drops significantly after that part is done.

> That's b/c of all the 'a' mode headers being addInstalled.  That part is
> going away in the next major release. Pursuant to the metadata stuff.

Excellent :)

	- Panu -