[Yum] high memory utilization

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 10:19, Hedemark, Magnus wrote:
> Seth writes:
> > Use smaller, but dependency-resolved repositories.
> 
> Which will come when I split off from RH9 and build a custom distro.  For
> now I'm working from kickstarts against RH9.
> 
> > So any given run only runs on a few hundred packages - rather than the
> > complete 1500 that are RHL.
> 
> It turns out that this big memory issue only happens one time;  the first
> time the system is updated.  I rebooted the box, and for giggles ran yum
> update again and yum used ~11M tops.

fewer things to load into memory.

-sv