Re: [Hampshire] Tuning yum on Fedora 8

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Author: Jon Fautley
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Tuning yum on Fedora 8

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On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:46:31 +0100
"Ottavio Caruso" <tat07x202@???> wrote:

>
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:06:31 +0000, "Jon Fautley"
> <jfautley@???> said:
> > On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:33:59 +0000
> > The Holy ettlz <theholyettlz@???> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > 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?
>
> Is it in /proc/something/swappiness ?


That just controls the "likelyhood" of the system using swap. It's got
nothing to do with process memory utilisation. It's a VM tunable.

Cheers,

/j
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