Yum is a memory pig to the tune of 3GB

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Mar 24 18:32:42 UTC 2008


seth vidal (skvidal at 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




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