[Yum] high memory utilization

Emmanuel Seyman seyman at wanadoo.fr
Mon Oct 6 14:30:30 UTC 2003


On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:10:57AM -0400, Hedemark, Magnus wrote:
> 
> A stripped down box with 128M of RAM starts swapping quite a bit while
> running "yum update" but I'll chalk this one up as a fact of life and merely
> suggest letting yum run in the wee hours to avoid causing performance
> problems.

I have to admit to still using apt on my low-end systems. I have
quite a few machines that are routing/firewalling ones and the
32M of RAM these have just isn't enough to run yum comfortably.

Emmanuel



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