Re: [Hampshire] Tuning yum on Fedora 8

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Author: The Holy ettlz
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Tuning yum on Fedora 8

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> > Any Fedora users out there who know how to tune down yum's memory
> > requirements? Just updated 14 packages and it the process allocated
> > over 200 MiB virutal, with about 170 MiB resident...
>
> Not sure there's a specific way of tuning memory usage. Is it yum, or
> RPM, allocating the memory?


Most of it seems to be allocated by yum since the memory usage goes
skyward even before any transactions have taken place. It even takes yum
87/107 res/virt MiB peak to decide that there are no updates available
on my system.

James

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