yum and low memory kernel behaviour

[seth vidal]

On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 02:39 -0400, Gregory Woodbury wrote:
> I have a small memory notebook (old Dell Latitude) with only 64MB of
> RAM.  It is running FC3t3+rawhide (2004-10-23) using XFCE.  I mostly use
> it as an intelligent terminal to other machines across the LAN, however
> I expect it to be able to do other things (very) slowly when I need it
> to do so.  The system _should_ swap to disk when necessary, but recent
> kernels have been more inclined to invoke the OOM killer and kill off
> various services.
> 
> Yum 2.1.10-3 is very good at trigerring this problem.  Trying to create
> the pickle for the development repository will consistently kill the
> machine.

The pickle for the development repository would be about 200MB of memory
to read then write out.

There's no way to do what you want to do in 64M of ram w/o swapping.

-sv