[Yum] high memory utilization

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 10:10, Hedemark, Magnus wrote:
> Seth writes:
> > Get rid of all headers, forever.
> > 
> > It's not quite that simple but it's close.
> [snip]
> 
> Gotcha.
> 
> The reason I ask is that I'm doing some experimental work on ways to
> leverage open source software to bridge the digital divide (through both the
> recycling of older hardware and the use of wireless broadband networking to
> form community network cooperatives).  My recent success at integrating yum
> into the enterprise network during my day job naturally leads me to want to
> use it for my hobby projects.
> 
> The target system I'm building for is a Pentium 100MHz with 128M RAM and
> 1.2G hard drive (partly because I have a couple of these around, and partly
> because this is a very obtainable configuration for someone looking for
> super cheap or free hardware if you look around).
> 
> 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.

Use smaller, but dependency-resolved repositories.

So any given run only runs on a few hundred packages - rather than the
complete 1500 that are RHL.

-sv